Hilmar,

>>Hilmar,
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>>Have you thought about West Wind's stuff? Rick apprently is going to be providing his message board stuff as a separate product. Here's a link: http://www.west-wind.com/webconnection/wcpricing.htm
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>I think I can get a demo of that one, right?

Hmm.. Not sure. I know that there are some demos available but I'm not sure about the message board stuff.

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>Do you know what it requires - for instance, an NT Server, Web Server, etc.? This is all quite new for me.

The suggested/preferred setup would be on a box running IIS. NT4 would work as well as W2K (my preference). IIS will manage wll your web server stuff and is relatively speaking a real breeze to use. As a matter of fact, if you're running a W2K or NT4 workstation you can set up a test site right there. You can also use the PWS (Personal Web Server) that is an add-on for W95/98 but candidly it's not really worht the hassles IMO.

Rick's message board is available at www.west-wind.com/wwtrheads/ and is a great example of what you can do Several others are also using Rick's message board stuff. Vision Data Solutions (Visual MaxFrame folks) run one at: http://vmpdiscussion.visionds.com/ . On Rick's site you'll get a LOT of help.





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