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7 Kultur, Kommunikation, Medien
| Sprache / Kulturinstitutionen, Archive, Bibliotheken, Museen, Galerien, Ausstellungen / Kulturtheorien, Soziokultur / Presse / Alternativpresse / Gegenöffentlichkeit, Medientheorie / Rundfunk / Fernsehen / Informationsübermittlung / Internet / Open Source / Netzkritik, Netzkultur, Netzkunst / Neitzbewegung, Netzaktivismus / E-Texte, Digitale Texte / Kino / Theater / Musik / Bücher / Verlage, Literatur / Zensur / Kunst / Satire, Humor
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| Systematik: | ID-Archiv EATC id-e-7341 |
| | Status: | Changed | | Checked: | 03-03-02 03:44:18 PM |
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| | Selbstdarstellung: | | A Brief Overview HyperNews is a cross between the hypermedia of the WWW and Usenet News. Readers can browse through the messages written by other people and reply to those messages. A forum (also called a base article) holds a tree of these messages, displayed as an indented outline that shows how the messages are related (i.e. all replies to a message are listed under it and indented). Users can become members of HyperNews or subscribe to a forum in order to get email whenever a message is posted, so they don't have to check if anything new has been added. A recipient can then send a reply email back to HyperNews, rather than finding a browser to write a reply, and HyperNews then places the message in the appropriate forum. Currently there is not a gateway to Usenet News (but see discussion on that issue). Rather, forums and messages are maintained on a web server. Unlike most news servers, messages never expire (unless an automatic expiration feature is enabled). But like usenet articles, HyperNews messages may not be edited after being "posted". However, there are many applications where it makes sense to allow editing, so we would like to add support for that. The source for HyperNews is avaiable to anyone who wants to download it. Please read the installation instructions and bug reporting forums. There are several related WWW projects on collaboration that allow feedback from readers on the web. HyperNews is not intended to be a centralized service, and not all forums are on one machine (many other HyperNews servers have been set up - see the list). Everyone is invited to install the HyperNews Source on their own server to begin distributing forums more widely. Distributing the forums will distribute the load and make HyperNews more scalable. Caching and replication would also help, but that will be required to make the WWW scalable in any case. Contrary to appearances, HyperNews does not modify pages to append replies. Instead, the HyperNews "get" script fetches and returns the body of the forum or message with the tree of reply messages appended dynamically. |
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