Discussion forum sofware in perl

[John]

What is your perl generated discussion forum software? Preferable free/gnu.

What I need in addition to features that most forum software has:

- when someone posts something administrator gets a copy via email

- administrator can upload messages as if someone had posted them.

The latter is especially important. I maintain a ask-a-question-and-we-reply
forum. Often members skip the baord ask directly via email. I reply them via
email but I would like to upload the question and my answer to the board so
others can see the question and my answer in hopes someone would benefit from the
answer as well.

I can do perl code myself but my current perl board I have sofware has a message
proprietary system where I've not been able to decipher the message structure.

 

[Randal L. Schwartz]

John> What is your perl generated discussion forum software? Preferable
John> free/gnu.

What the world doesn't need is one more web-based discussion forum.

Since your questions are coming in via mail anyway, set up a (possibly
moderated) submission address with a web searchable archive, or just
adding a GMANE subscription, which will give you web-submissions and
NNTP access. By keeping it as ordinary mail and NNTP, those of us
who subscribe to more than one mailing list can use a common facility,
rather than going to *this* funky web site for *this* list, and *that*
completely different funky web site for *that* list.

People who keep creating different web forum setups drive me crazy.
They're doing the net more harm than good.

print "Just another Perl hacker,"; # the original

 

[John Bokma]

What is your perl generated discussion forum software? Preferable
free/gnu.

What I need in addition to features that most forum software has:

- when someone posts something administrator gets a copy via email

- administrator can upload messages as if someone had posted them.

The latter is especially important.

You probably can do that using web automation. I have done something
similar in the past for a PHPbb forum.

I maintain a
ask-a-question-and-we-reply forum. Often members skip the baord ask
directly via email. I reply them via email but I would like to upload
the question and my answer to the board so others can see the question
and my answer in hopes someone would benefit from the answer as well.

I can do perl code myself but my current perl board I have sofware has
a message proprietary system where I've not been able to decipher the
message structure.

If the messages are stored in a database, it's not that difficult to add
the former (I've added a simple RSS feed to the aforementioned PHPbb forum
that way).

 

[John]

If the messages are stored in a database, it's not that difficult to add
the former (I've added a simple RSS feed to the aforementioned PHPbb forum
that way).

The problem is that the database format is proprietary and not documented. To
make thing more complicated the data is spread between a number of files.

 

[John Bokma]

The problem is that the database format is proprietary and not
documented. To make thing more complicated the data is spread between
a number of files.

You mean that instead of a database files are used (or a mix even)?

Anyway, if you can post via a browser, you can post via Perl. If you need
help on this, see sig :-D.

If the board has a way to see "n recent posts" or "all new posts since
last login" it can be done with web automation as well.