Contributions are added by activating post and reply submission buttons that are dispersed throughout the message database. Replies to existing messages are inserted into the HTML document just below the activated reply button. We intend to log user activity, which can be used to generate a personalized page presenting a document list of new postings. The service is used by physicians, researchers, technologists, sales and other commercial personnel throughout the world who have an expressed interest in the field of Nuclear Medicine. In addition to the interactive bulletin board section, the service offers electronic mail and a library for exchange of programs, documents, and medical image cases.
Users access the system through either six dial-up modems, or via Internet.
We describe in this paper a fully interactive bulletin board implementation for NCSA Mosaic allowing users to add replies to existing messages, and to post new message documents. To interact with an electronic bulletin board service, the user must be able to post new messages and to reply to existing messages. For efficient reading of messages, they are also indexed. The home page of the interactive bulletin board interface for NCSA Mosaic is a HTML document that displays a link to a fill-out form for posting of new messages, and linkages to indices of existing bulletin board messages. A message thread begins with an initial question or comment, which is then followed by a series of replies stored in a single HTML document.