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On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:10:01 -0400, Dave Blandston wrote:
> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospam com> wrote:
>> The news server is:
>>
>> 200 news.povray.org DNEWS Version 5.7b1,, S0, posting OK
>>
>> (Taken from the header when telnetting to port 119).
>>
>> The web interface, I believe, was custom created, but there are several
>> good packages out there. If web forums are of interest to you, check
>> out vBulletin. It's not free, but it is pretty good (and there's an
>> NNTP gateway, so you can connect to it using a news client if you
>> like).
>>
>> Jim
>
> That's very helpful. I really like the forum customization DNEWS allows.
> It appears from the DNEWS website it's no longer supported, but
> vBulletin might be a good alternative. Thanks for the info.
Glad to help out, Dave. I moderate on a couple of systems that use
vBulletin with an NNTP gateway, and I find it to be a fairly decent
system. :-)
Jim
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