Re: [cobalt-developers] message board is ready

["Joe Boise" <my_hidden_email@xxxxxxxxx>]

I am sorry to bring this to you, but I have a bad feeling
that your message board pkg will bring trouble to
Raq users because of this:

"Bazooka Board is a very simple bulletin board system which requires NO database. It uses nothing more than a single text-file on
your web server for its data storage. "

Using a flat file database with a message board is going to
cause high resource loads, esp if the boards are heavly
visited.

We ban flat file boards on our servers, they are big resource hogs.

Joe

----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthew Nuzum" <cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Cobalt-Developers" <cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 4:48 PM
Subject: [cobalt-developers] message board is ready


The message board for the cobalt Raq is ready. [I THINK! Standard
disclaimers apply: No warranty, period, could trash your server, use at your
own risk]

You can download the PKG file at http://www.bearfruit.org/bazooka/index.php.
You can see it (and test it) at
http://www.bearfruit.org/bazooka/bboard/index.php. This is my first PKG
file, but I used Taco's neomail as my foundation.  It's actually much
simpler than neomail.

Because it's PHP based, you will need PHP on your server.  It will install
on a Raq3 or Raq4, but I've only tested it on a Raq4.  You should not need
to have PHP enabled for the site to use the board.  While the message board
is very stable and reliable, my packaging of it, or actually, it's
implementation in a cobalt Raq setting, will probably need a little
enhancement.

I've taken every effort to prevent this package from creating any security
implications.  I don't think you'll need to worry about it opening any
backdoors or trashing your server.

Please feel free to e-mail me directly, or if the implications are broad in
scope, to this list.  I monitor both the security and developer list.

Here's a blurb from the page linked above:

Bazooka Board is a very simple bulletin board system which requires NO
database. It uses nothing more than a single text-file on your web server
for its data storage.
Bazooka Board was created to help serve those who have PHP webspace, but no
MySQL database support. Its goal is to be extremely simple to setup, and
easy enough that even computer-illiterate people can use it.

It was modified (ever so slightly) by me to allow virtual hosting of a
single Bazooka Board, but in a way that each site will have it's own
separate datastore and configuration file.

Once installed, every site on the server will have a single message board
accessible at the url http://<SITE_NAME>/bboard

Check it out.  Please direct any concerns about the product to me (directly
prefered, but via
the list if appropriate).  Enjoy,
Matt Nuzum