>From: Jel Coward <[log in to unmask]>
>They want a noticeboard on their workstations to leave each other
>messages on (they hate using a message book and can never find it - and
>we are sprawled out in a horrible health centre)
>Any suggestions people - needs to be updatable at any workstation - be v
>readily available - eg constantly running minimised or in a small window
>- easy to add to and delete from.
FirstClass Server £300 or so. It does do nine or ten other things,
like internet e-mail and keeping libraries, but it will do that.
Lotus Notes is a bit pricey, and as for Exchange, it is so expensive
and secretive that only <certain> organisation/s would try to get
diverse subsections to standardise upon it.
How about the free webserver in Windows 95 as a publisher, either the
free Netscape or Internet Explorer or the cheap Opera for a display,
and a few lines of VB PERL or Java to stuff bits of text into
predetermined files in the server directory as a way of adding to it
and disseminating.
The network DDE shared clipboard is still somewhere down in the Windows
95 undergrowth (suburbs of Chicago?) and would do what you are asking.
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