[thelist] bulletin board for intranet?

[Don Makoviney]

> Just a thought: could it lead to employees using someone else's
> computer/ip to post flamatory topics, under someone else's name?

Naw, not really on ours. We have something we call the "TechExchange" that I
built in ASP- which is sort of like MetaFilter format - but for our company
only. We are a worldwide company and have about 1500 people using it 24
hours/day. We post everything there from SYstem Upgrades and planned
outages, to press releases and announcements. All the information is
searchable. It works great. I can send you screenshots if you like. Just let
me know.

We keep track of everyone by their NT NetworkID, and join their netowrk ID
to their name in our company phone directory - and so it logs who is posting
automatically, without the user having to do anything. This way the
inflammatory comments are kept to a minimum. We've never really had a
problem with it.

HTH,

Don Makoviney

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----- Original Message -----
From: "jon steele" <jjsteele22 at yahoo.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 11:24 PM
Subject: Re: [thelist] bulletin board for intranet?


> Interesting topic.
>
> Just a thought: could it lead to employees using someone else's
> computer/ip to post flamatory topics, under someone else's name?
> Because they may have access to others' computers, and if the password
> is cookied...
>
> On Internet forums, this problem does not exist.
>
> Jon
>
>
> --- Bob Davis <bobd at members.evolt.org> wrote:
> > At 10:05 PM -0400 10/22/01, you wrote:
> >
> >
> > >Does anyone think that a bulletin board system similar to UBB would
> > be
> > >useful on a corporate intranet?
> >
> > Yes, but there are caveats...
> >
> >
> > >I thought it could be useful so that users could help each other out
> > with
> > >the programs they use and offer tips to each other. They could also
> > discuss
> > >topics relating to their health care programs and also discuss
> > upcoming
> > >events within the company.
> >
> > Yeah, that was the intention. However, it got abused.
> >
> > People kind of forgot that they weren't on the "Internet", and that
> > things weren't so anonymous any more. I had to make it moderated, log
> >
> > IP's and make it known that there were people watching and that you
> > *could* get fired for saying inappropriate stuff on there - just like
> >
> > you could if you said it in person.
> >
> >
> > >I'm not sure if management would let such an open forum exist and
> > there's
> > >the problem of the bulletin board devolving into some kind of flame
> > board
> > >with people insulting each other.
> >
> > It was permitted - but we had to make sure that there were no abuses,
> >
> > no inappropriate stuff, nothing management could be held culpable
> > for. It was not so fun.  Creating all of the tracking stuff was kind
> > of fun though.
> >
> >
> > >Does anybody have a bulletin board system where they work? Do you
> > experience
> > >many problems and does it require a lot of maintenance?
> >
> > ;)
> >
> > Maintenance was easy, but checking the posts, taking screen shots of
> > the stupid stuff people posted and reporting it (I didn't ask to be
> > the net police, but it became my job) before deleting it and sending
> > mail...that was a drag.
> >
> > bob
> >
> > --
> > bob davis
> > bobd at members.evolt.org
> > http://www.bobdavis.org/
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