Skimpy Forum: An Application of Perl and XML

by Erik T. Ray , coauthor of Perl and XML 06/20/2002 Every day, thousands, if not millions, of people view and post messages on Web forums. These forums are public, like billboards, but organized like email into threads, and sorted. My friends and I have been using them for years to keep in touch. Over time, forums have become quite ornate, with polished designs as you would find in slashdot and other places. But I told my friends that at their heart, a forum is really very simple. In...n

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