POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Does anyone know what forum software the POV-Ray Newsgroups uses? : Re: Does anyone know what forum software the POV-Ray Newsgroups uses? Server Time
5 Sep 2024 07:19:51 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Does anyone know what forum software the POV-Ray Newsgroups uses?  
From: Dave Blandston
Date: 27 Aug 2009 20:15:01
Message: <web.4a972059c863478adf22a6900@news.povray.org>
Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> 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.

Regards,
Dave Blandston


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