Publisher review:Newsgroups application supports all of the important characteristics from traditional newsgroups. Newsgroups are almost as old as the Internet itself. Traditional newsgroups are based in specialized clients (Outlook Express is an example) that users had to configure prior to use.
Web versions have appear recently demanding nothing from users but that they participate. But in most of them users lost the "tree" view of the messages (their hierarchy), something necessary to understand the correct message sequence.
This application supports all of the important characteristics from traditional newsgroups, namely:
- unlimited number of thematic groups
- Public
- Private (authorized users only)
- tree view of the message hierarchy with different icons for:
- Messages without replies
- Messages with replies
- Message opened on the moment
- Anonimous and identified users, using its own user list or the site registered users base;
- File attachments (1 per message) dependent on user rights
- Rich Text editor allows for formatted text messages (Bolds, fonts, etc) directly on Internet Explorer or copy / paste from MS-Word.
- Multiple-criteria searches;
- Administration interface allows:
- Define Users;
- Define Newsgroups;
- For each newsgroup:
- Define if anonymous users can enter a given newsgroup;
- Define if anonymous users can add file attachments;
- Define if anonymous users can insert messages;
Newsgroups is a ASP script for News Publishing scripts design by SiteApps.
It runs on following operating system: Windows.
Operating system:Windows
Newsgroups script details 
