Web-Based Message Boards with Offline Reader?

Posted by Cliff on Thursday September 7, 2000 @09:15AM from the well-it-was-useful-for-BBSes dept.

Biedermann asks: "I have been looking for web based messageboard for ages. The Problem is: the users should be able to log in, get the new messages, log out and read/write offline. Not everybody has low-cost-always-on-broadband access to the net. All the programs I could find were either not keeping promises or fell unmaintained years ago in beta. Is there any such beast? Or would it be possible to do such a thing with Slashcode or Squishdot? (I'm not a coder, so I don't know what it takes)" I've been thinking about writing something like this for Slashcode but haven't yet had the time. Do you all think this would be a worthwhile application?

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USE NNTP! by Alan+Shutko · 2000-09-07 04:44 · Score: 4

If you do this, use NNTP or some sort of gateway. There are a plethora of offline readers for them, they are more featureful than just spewing the messages out over email or some web-specific client.

This will require that people learn to configure a newsreader, but those who are concerned about their online time are more often to have one already.