Re: Message Board / News Server

by "Timothy G. Embler" <hwg(at)myrealbox.com>

 Date:  Tue, 14 Mar 2000 23:39:13 -0800
 To:  "Joel M. Bryant" <webmaster(at)computekonline.com>,
"HTML Writers Guild" <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
 References:  computekonline
  todo: View Thread, Original
Well the best way I know how to do it would be using perl.  I have seen that
done several times w/ it.  If you dont have perl installed or want to stay
away from it I would use CF for it.  I dont know how to use CF for a message
board but I dont think it would be that difficult.

Tim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joel M. Bryant" <webmaster(at)computekonline.com>
To: "HTML Writers Guild" <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2000 10:07 PM
Subject: Message Board / News Server


>
> Hi everyone.  I run the server and am the webmaster at
> http://www.clansites.com/
>
> I thought about going to gamers.com and signing up for their message
boards,
> but then I thought, "I run my own news server.  Why not incorporate the
news
> server into the website as a message board?"  I have cold fusion 4.01
> installed on the server, but am really just getting started with cf.
>
> My question is would it be best to program a message board in cf or asp,
and
> can someone point me in the right direction for running a message board
via
> my news server?  If it makes a difference, I am running IIS 5 on Win2k
Adv.
> Server.
>
>
> Thank You,
>
> Joel M. Bryant
>
>

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