X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,256d60db584f8ced X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-03-05 08:04:01 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.ems.psu.edu!news.aset.psu.edu!not-for-mail From: draco Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: [offtopic] Re: How can I create a FORUM just like this one?????? Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 10:59:32 -0500 Organization: Penn State University, Center for Academic Computing Lines: 42 Message-ID: <3E661EE4.6060401@eden.local> References: <20030305051236.28814.00000050@mb-fj.aol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lws118.rh.psu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: f04n12.cac.psu.edu 1046879826 38130 66.71.27.192 (5 Mar 2003 15:57:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@f04n12.cac.psu.edu NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 15:57:06 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020830 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:22145 Harry Mason wrote: > KatiaLLa wrote: > >>Would neebody know where I can get or make a FORUM or Newsgroup that looks >>exactly like this one or similar to those of AOL? > > > It's rare to create a newsgroup. There's probably already a group about every > conceivable topic; you could search Google Groups > for something of interest. And if you don't go through the right channels to get your new newsgroup approved, not too many hosts will carry it (look at alt.elf-chicks.rule, the creator just sent out the creation message without geting general admin approval, and not too many hosts carry it, so it's mostly dead (if nobody can post there, you don't have much of a forum)) Out of curiosity, how would you make a newsgroup-like interface for a forum? You'd need java/javascript to do the nested replies wouldn't you? The subscription part of NNTP would be which rooms you want to see updates on, that's cookies and accounts - an anonomous person would have to have a default group of forums they could read/post to (which isn't so bad, but definitely not how NNTP works) I suppose that's why nobody does it, people like me wouldn't bother to turn on javascripting just to read/post. Perhapse if they had two forums linked to the same database, one standard HTML, one with massive Java applet to give you this interphase.... speaking of which, what people see when they look at newsgroups will also vary with the software they're using, so the above was a generalization on how most NNTP clients work. If you just have a group of people you want to get messages to, a mailing list would probably be your best option. You can get them free online (with advertising) or if one of your friends/cohorts has a mail server they could set it up.