Monty Roberts wrote:

Hello all,

Regarding the discussion on being able to place files such as JPEG's, cnc, etc on the web and also have an easy way to keep track of discussion threads. Another forum which I peruse occasionally, recently went through an upheaval caused by intranets.com beginning to charge for use of their service. In the past they had used an advertisement based business model which meant that you could have a free forum on their site if you looked at all the silly adds. This made the forum slow and annoying. Thanks to the dot com fiasco of late, the other forum I look at decided to establish their own server and used a freeware forum program called:

http://www.w-agora.net/

If you want to get an Idea of what the forum can look like check out:

http://www.fusor.net/board/index.php?site=fusor

There are also some links on the w-agora web site to other people using this software. If we did start to use this it might take some of the load off of Paul (Paul I REALLY do appreciate the service you perform, but it must take a tremendous amount of time :^(  The forum can still be moderated to keep things civil and keep the crackpots out. It also has the capability to require a password to get into the forum if you want. It makes it possible to maintain archives of data, pictures, threads, FAQ's etc. The best practices ARREEP and ACRE stuff could all be combined into one site. Just an Idea. I like things the way they are, but it might prevent going over the same ground again and again. Plus it would automate archival of data to some degree. Digging around on the w-agora site I saw someone saying they were using it with Linux, but being no web master, I don't know all the ins and outs of getting something like this up and running. I can say that the fusor forum is much imp!

roved, faster etc than before.

Monty Roberts
RMI
1795 Berry St.
Fayetteville, AR 72701
tmrbrts@swbell.net

I think we learn stuff as we go along so going over it again is 
not all bad.

Paul Lamar

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