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Sitaram · Site Admin Joined: 14 Sep 2005 Posts: 1079

I think you should ALL sign up RIGHT THIS MOMENT for your own free forum. But then come back and share with me your learning experiences.

Well, why not? Its free. I guess there is a way to delete if if you get bored with it. If you have just 3 really good internet friends, then the four of you can really get some use out of it. And for students, for study groups, it would be fantastic.

You can used permissions and hiding to make it invisible except to the members that you want to see it. And you can restict joining to Admin approval.

Of course, whenever I log in as Sitaram, I have admisnistrator status.

I really should log in tomorrow as a moderator, to get a feeling for what they can and cannot do.

Just now, I clicked on the site statistics, and I clicked on an IP address of a visitor, and up popped a tool to trace the ip address, and, Lo and Behold, it traced to a search engine spider.

Very interesting!

Today, just for fun, I created a free forum for a small company with 8 people who are spread around the country and travel a lot. I had a pretty nice forum in only one hour, because it was simple: just one forum for each employee.

It is utterly astounding how fast you can answer a few questiions and, bingo, you have a forum.

And, when you get used to the commands, you can create things so quickly.

You can create groups, for one thing, and the group is like a member, with various rights to farious forums (or sub forums if you please).

The terminology seems confusing. We call the entire entity (of which I am admin) a Forum. But then, each horizontol row is also called a forum. Perhaps someone will enlighten me regarding more precise termnology.

Anyway, I have a goat group and a sheep group. Both groups are hidden, which means that guests and logged in members, and even mods cannot see them. Only admin can see them (I think). When you click on properties for a particular group, the group properties page opens displaying all forums. If a forum is a HIDDEN forum, then you may specify whether this group is moderator or not moderator, and also whether thy can SEE the forum. If the group is alrady moderator for a forum, and then you declare that forum to be hidden, then that group will automatically have access (be able to see) that forum.

If you add a member to that group, then that member has all the same abilities and prohibitions that the group has.

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