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The Dialogs Project, a suite of CGI binaries written in C designed to provide teacher-moderated student discussion forums on the web, was released into the public domain today.

This program was designed to allow teachers to setup correspondence journals through the World Wide Web so that students can discuss paralell issues in any number of classrooms that have Internet access.

Dialogs keeps correspondence between any number of users in a "dialog group" in a single file that is accessible for download by the teacher. Configuration of these files is performed by the teacher. Students can post replies but can nototherwise modify group files. Each student "logs on" to Dialogs with a username and password, preventing fraud. The teacher "logs on" to Dialogs to configure or download files.... read more