Re: [Iamb-dev-internal] IAMB $stree API, version 2E-10

[Rich B. <rb...@rc...>]

> I am not sure what a forum is, actually. If you could enlighten
> me, Matt, I'd appreciate it.

A forum is an organizational thingy. It's just a collection of threads
that are in a particular subject area. It could be also thought of as a
sub-community.

Take a look at http://discussion.visorcentral.com/vcforum/index.php as
an example. One community (Handspring Visor users) but multiple forums
(software, hardware, accessories, troubleshooting, etc). Then each forum
contains threads. Which contain articles.

In the Kenya web site, I'll have Social, Government, AIDS, and perhaps
others. But they are all part of the Kenya community.

Forums will have (possibly) access control lists (who can view, who can
post, etc). They will possibly be invisible to some people. They will
possibly be read-only to some people. Ooh, they could be write-only to
some people - as in, you can post an article in the Support forum, but
you can't read other people's articles. Only the Support Staff could
read all the articles.

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