is there a free, perl-ish alternative to quicktopic.com?

phildog has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm looking for something dead simple and easy to integrate with an existing site. Do you know of a free perl script out there somewhere?

The web/smtp integration is key. Optional use of mysql would be awesome.

If you don't know what quicktopic is:
is quicktopic cool and should it be perl freeware?

Kick the tires, post on the web and by responding to emails. It's perl-erific!

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Re: is there a free, perl-ish alternative to quicktopic.com? by cLive ;-) (Prior) on Nov 20, 2002 at 18:11 UTC
/me plugs Discusware once more - although I'm not sure if it's 100% what you want. cLive ;-)	[reply]
Re: Re: is there a free, perl-ish alternative to quicktopic.com? by phildog (Novice) on Nov 22, 2002 at 16:54 UTC
Discusware is not bad, but it lacks the feature that makes quicktopic most appealing--the ability to respond to an email and your comment automatically becomes part of the web page's archived discussion. this means that people can join the conversation later and see a chronological history of the archived messages (in an interface much more logical than a long string of forwarded messages at the bottom of an email). this is a bit hard to follow from a description. If you try the link on my original question you will see exactly how it works. it's actually quite a compelling concept. try it! disclaimer: i've only used quicktopic's free stuff (and I don't work there).	[reply]
Re: is there a free, perl-ish alternative to quicktopic.com? by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Nov 20, 2002 at 15:58 UTC
Site's down currently. Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]