Re: [MacPerl-WebCGI] Quoting body from a WWWboard posting

[Richard Gordon <maccgi@bellsouth.net>]

At 10:40 -0400 08/02/1999, Bill Jones wrote:
>The amount of time spent in trying to fix such a beast could be spent in
>developing a 'wwwboard' like function which does what you want...

That's definitely true of a lot of canned Perl solutions for one 
thing or another. Many virtual hosting providers make canned scripts 
available as a part of their feature sets, but the frustration level 
involved in getting them to actually work as intended probably runs a 
lot of customers off in short order.

>I mean think about it - do you really want people adding attachments?  Do
>you really need 50K+ postings?  If you feel the answer is 'yes' then do what
>we did - install a News Server for internal use only.

In my brother's case, they are moving everything to a FirstClass 
server system. That's fairly costly, but an elegant approach that can 
be configured without any mysteries and can be administered by almost 
anyone with a vague idea of what they are doing (e.g., he can pass 
the whole thing off on somebody else to worry about once it's set 
up). Paying $2k for a server that is running within an hour and does 
exactly what you wanted makes more sense to me than messing with a 
"free" script for 3 weeks and still having problems with it.


Richard Gordon
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