On 4/27/2011 9:24 AM, Robert Heller wrote: > At Wed, 27 Apr 2011 09:56:44 -0400 CentOS mailing list<centos at centos.org> wrote: > >> >> I use inn to make internal company announcements and >> discussions available to remote offices. >> I note inn is removed form RHEL 6. What replaces inn? >> >> http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Technical_Notes/apc.html >> >> Will inn be available from elsewhere? Will I have to compile >> it? >> >> Should I modify my scripts to create and install html files >> for a web server? That would make article deletion, archiving, >> and maintenance more difficult than it is with the inn >> nntp server. >> >> Is there some "forum" type package that would be better >> than the inn system? > > You could install one of several (open source) CMS packages, that work > with a database (MySQL) and a Webserver (Apache) and are generally > coded in PHP. WordPress is a fairly simple system that might give you > what you want. Not exactly a "forum", but does allow people to > 'comment' on blog entries (posts), which might be all you need. It > does allow for the site adminstrator to grant authoring privs to other > users. And there might be plugins that implement full-fledged forums > (I haven't looked). Joomla! is a more comprehensive CMS system and it > does have extensions that implement forums. A wiki works well for this sort of thing too, especially if it has the ability to email notifications about updates. Inn/news does have an advantage in scaling and resource consumption, but the real issue here is retraining the users, especially if they are currently using a combo news/email client that automatically sees new messages posted to a group. I've always wondered if there is a free equivalent of the software running http://news.lugnet.com/ which seems to be simultaneously a web forum, a newsgroup, and an email list, depending on how you access it. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com