Sun's chat rooms offer the best moderator and access-control capabilities, even without the Portal Server. Moderators have the power to control who can read, write, manage and deny access to users, and can assign specific rights to individual users and a default right for everyone else. Moderators can also screen and approve messages before letting them be posted into the room, to manage large Q&A conferences smoothly. A chat room can have multiple moderators, and each will get a copy of the screened message. The product also supports polls, but unlike IBM's solution, you get only individual responses rather than a final tally count.
Sun ONE Portal Server: Instant Collaboration Pack 3.0.1, Sun Microsystems. (800) 786-7638, (650) 960-1300. www.sun.com/software/products/portal_srvr/home_portal.html
Michael J. DeMaria is an associate technology editor based at Network Computing's Syracuse University Real-World Labs®. Write to Michael at [email protected].
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