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Need your help: What's a good Yahoo Groups type of system for LAN use?

Tuesday, September 06, 2005 10:06:44 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00) ( Tech )

I've been researching some specific technology needs, and figured I'd post here and see if anyone working in the collaboration/groupware/SharePoint world has any ideas. I've got my own research, and am speaking to a few others I know, but the community is bound to have some good input.

What I need is a Yahoo-Groups-like system, but it needs to be private and deployed on the LAN (for security purposes). Threaded discussions, with an email interface to contribute and receive updates. In a perfect world, it would build into SharePoint (we use it as an intranet platform), or at least lend itself to being displayed there. And while I am aware of future software possibilities, I can't wait for v.next in this case.

Indexed, searchable content, with opt-in and opt-out lists that can be moderated if needed, are also important.

Any ideas? Please - let me know!

Things I have considered:

Groove - http://www.groove.net - and Groove Mobile Workspace for SharePoint, which looks like a possibility
KAOrg - http://www.kaorg.com/ - which is interesting, but it's not very grown-up

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Saturday, September 10, 2005 10:34:30 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)

Hey, Greg: What about Exchange public folders? They can be mail-enabled (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/guides/PFBestPrac/e4d22de2-839b-4ee9-a4f4-f8cd5e0d1590.mspx), and you can expose them via SharePoint (http://weblogs.asp.net/wkriebel/archive/2004/10/28/249195.aspx , http://weblogs.asp.net/mnissen/archive/2004/07/05/173364.aspx#206189).

Phil Weber

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