I think dbMan, Links SQL and GForum can all be made into excellent news scripts. What I have been hoping for and has been requested by others is a new product/script or a plugin to make make a news script without extensive hacking or modifications. I personally don't have the knowledge to complete and maintain these kinds of modifications and would prefert to pay for a script like article manager rather than spending days modifing a Links SQL ($450), dbMan SQL ($350) or GForum ($200) to do what I want/need. TheThere also appears to be a commercial market for a product like this because of the commercial success of GT's products, the continuing availability of other vendors products like ArtMan and the news portal scripts like postnuke and ez publish.
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Rob

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