ErikVB wrote
S2K, could you perhaps elaborate on the use case your client has for anonymous forums? To me it seems rather pointless to have anonymous forums.. it would become more like something of a blog, or guestbook even....
cheers,
Erik
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I have one. My daughter, Natalie, recently passed away at 18 months old. She was fighting a rare form of cancer known as Rhabdoid Tumor of the Kidney. While fighting this cancer, I often posted to and received good information from a very old forum used by www.rhabdoidkids.com on disc.server.com. As much as I hated this old forum software that only allowed searching on a single key word and was virtually unsearchable with google since several thousand forums are hosted on it's URL (using 'Search this site' functionality), many people who used it loved it because it offered them the ability to post anonymously for whatever reason.
I think I am not alone in the thinking that if someone ones to contribute anonymously to a dialog that may save a child's life with this disease, by all rights, let them contribute anonymously!
Speaking of Forking, although not nearly as integrated as the core forums, YetAnotherForum.net does offer a complete, multi-portal FREE solution to implementing forums in your dotnetnuke site already that does support anonymous posting. I would personally rather use the core forums as overall, they are far superior to any other solution (ActiveModules Active Forums are great, but cost $$$'s and don't offer (at least for my version) a free upgrade path), but if that is what I have to do to, that is what i will have to do.
Speaking of Active Module's Active Forums, it took me the better part of four hours to get the version my client purchased on www.virtualrap.com to work with DNN 3.3, but I was able to.
-Kenneth S. Courtney