Bulletin Board Forum w/ Email Posting

[Gerald S]

Hello All,

I am looking for an asp-based bulletin board forum where users can post via
email or the standard web interface. Similar to Yahoo Groups. I have
looked an my asp forums, but most do not allow for message posting via
email.

Thanks,
Gerald

[grw]

A lot of boards have a built in messaging system (usually called a 'pm' or
personal message.
Its not an actual email system as per yahoo / hotmail.

Is that what you mean?

An example is [url]www.aspplayground.net[/url]


"Gerald S" <gerald@geraldandnicole.com> wrote in message
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> Hello All,
>
> I am looking for an asp-based bulletin board forum where users can post

via

> email or the standard web interface. Similar to Yahoo Groups. I have
> looked an my asp forums, but most do not allow for message posting via
> email.
>
> Thanks,
> Gerald
>
>

[Gerald S]

Hello,

Thanks for the tip, but that is not what I was talking about.

I am looking for a bulletin board which lets users post messages to it via
email, like a list server. So to participate in a group, you can use both
the web based interface and email. You can do this to groups at
groups.yahoo.com.

Sorry if it was not clear.

Regards,
Gerald

"grw" <none@none.com> wrote in message
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> A lot of boards have a built in messaging system (usually called a 'pm' or
> personal message.
> Its not an actual email system as per yahoo / hotmail.
>
> Is that what you mean?
>
> An example is [url]www.aspplayground.net[/url]
>
>
> "Gerald S" <gerald@geraldandnicole.com> wrote in message
> news:#qYr#7fWDHA.2064@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...

> > Hello All,
> >
> > I am looking for an asp-based bulletin board forum where users can post

> via

> > email or the standard web interface. Similar to Yahoo Groups. I have
> > looked an my asp forums, but most do not allow for message posting via
> > email.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Gerald
> >
> >

>
>

[Gerald S]

Hello All,

I am looking for an asp-based bulletin board forum where users can post new
topics via
email or the standard web interface. Similar to Yahoo Groups
(groups.yahoo.com). I have
looked an my asp forums, but most do not allow for posting new topics via
email.

I guess it is a combination of a bbs and list server.

Thanks,
Gerald

[Tom Gahagan]

Have you checked out the stuff at... [url]www.planet-source-code.com?[/url] I think
there are some asp forum applications there. Not sure about the exact
options though. (?)

Best
Tom Gahagan

"Gerald S" <gerald@geraldandnicole.com> wrote in message
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> Hello All,
>
> I am looking for an asp-based bulletin board forum where users can post

via

> email or the standard web interface. Similar to Yahoo Groups. I have
> looked an my asp forums, but most do not allow for message posting via
> email.
>
> Thanks,
> Gerald
>
>

[Ray at]

You have a thread about this over in asp.general already, don't you?

Ray at home

--
Will trade ASP help for SQL Server help


"Gerald S" <gerald@geraldandnicole.com> wrote in message
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> Hello All,
>
> I am looking for an asp-based bulletin board forum where users can post

new

> topics via
> email or the standard web interface. Similar to Yahoo Groups
> (groups.yahoo.com). I have
> looked an my asp forums, but most do not allow for posting new topics via
> email.
>
> I guess it is a combination of a bbs and list server.
>
> Thanks,
> Gerald
>
>
>

[CJM]

I've never seen a freebie/cheap BBS in ASP with that feature.

However, there is no reason you can take a standard BBS and add this
functionaility on yourself. It would be quite an effort, but there is no
reason why it cant be done...

Two good BBS's are [url]www.webwizguide.com[/url], and Snitz Forums (sorry, dont know
URL).

Tom has pointed you to Planet Source Code - you should be able to find the
code to handle the processing of the incoming emails....

Chris

"Gerald S" <gerald@geraldandnicole.com> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> Thanks for the tip, but that is not what I was talking about.
>
> I am looking for a bulletin board which lets users post messages to it via
> email, like a list server. So to participate in a group, you can use both
> the web based interface and email. You can do this to groups at
> groups.yahoo.com.
>
> Sorry if it was not clear.
>
> Regards,
> Gerald
>
> "grw" <none@none.com> wrote in message
> news:Oc4F5VgWDHA.2276@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...

> > A lot of boards have a built in messaging system (usually called a 'pm'

or

> > personal message.
> > Its not an actual email system as per yahoo / hotmail.
> >
> > Is that what you mean?
> >
> > An example is [url]www.aspplayground.net[/url]
> >
> >
> > "Gerald S" <gerald@geraldandnicole.com> wrote in message
> > news:#qYr#7fWDHA.2064@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...

> > > Hello All,
> > >
> > > I am looking for an asp-based bulletin board forum where users can

post

> > via

> > > email or the standard web interface. Similar to Yahoo Groups. I have
> > > looked an my asp forums, but most do not allow for message posting via
> > > email.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Gerald
> > >
> > >

> >
> >

>
>

[Curt J Raddatz]

I use the BBS system from Ideal Science ([url]www.idealscience.com[/url]) and have been
very happy with it. They also have a list server that integrates with the
BBS and should provide the features you need, though I personally have not
used it. Good luck!


"Gerald S" <gerald@geraldandnicole.com> wrote in message
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> Hello All,
>
> I am looking for an asp-based bulletin board forum where users can post

via

> email or the standard web interface. Similar to Yahoo Groups. I have
> looked an my asp forums, but most do not allow for message posting via
> email.
>
> Thanks,
> Gerald
>
>

[Paul Woods]

WebBoard does this. I think it might be ASP-based, but I'm not sure. It
allows participation via web, e-mail, and NNTP. Unfortunately, it's not
cheap.

It was originally created by O'Reilly software, then was acquired by Akiva.

[url]http://www.webboard.com[/url]


"Gerald S" <gerald@geraldandnicole.com> wrote in message
news:#qYr#7fWDHA.2064@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...

> Hello All,
>
> I am looking for an asp-based bulletin board forum where users can post

via

> email or the standard web interface. Similar to Yahoo Groups. I have
> looked an my asp forums, but most do not allow for message posting via
> email.
>
> Thanks,
> Gerald
>
>

[Michael D. Kersey]

Gerald S wrote:

>
> Hello All,
>
> I am looking for an asp-based bulletin board forum where users can post via
> email or the standard web interface. Similar to Yahoo Groups. I have
> looked an my asp forums, but most do not allow for message posting via
> email.
>
> Thanks,
> Gerald

Set up an NNTP server and add a WWW interface to the newsgroups. The
first takes care of users with newsreaders. The second handles those who
need a WWW interface.

This would probably be easier in PerlScript than in VBScript because
all the pieces are available in Perl already in the CPAN libraries. See
[url]http://search.cpan.org/[/url]
and in particular
[url]http://search.cpan.org/search?query=NNTP&mode=all[/url]
IIRC either the News::NNTPClient or Net::NNTP modules is what you want.

A clip from the News::NNTPClient module documentation showing how to
print all articles in the "test" newsgroup:

> #!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
> use News::NNTPClient;
> $c = new News::NNTPClient;
> ($first, $last) = ($c->group("test"));
> for (; $first <= $last; $first++) {
> print $c->article($first);
> }

Good Luck,
Michael D. Kersey