[chovy]

I see the forum is vbulletin (good choice) -- I'm curious what the other parts of the site use (ie - articles, hosting directory, etc.).

How does it all tie together? Custom software, or an open source CMS package?

[RobinVossen]

Most of this Question can be answered my Footprinting.
The Mail Idea is that you make connections with Raw Sockets to the forums.
Eg, when you Ping LinuxForums you see that they run a LinuxServer (See the TTL)
You might want to checkout Footprinting - Wikipedia

-Warning!-
Not all the Footprinting is Legal..
Check out if its Legal first..
I aint responsible for anything you do,
nor for telling you about foot printing

[Core Wizard]

That's not what he meant. But no, it's all customly developed...

[RobinVossen]

Originally Posted by Core Wizard

That's not what he meant.

Whoop, sorry my bad.

[chovy]

Bummer (for me anyway) -- its really slick though, nice job!

I tried joomla+smf bridge, then they stopped supporting it, and now I'm thinking VB + some custom PHP. I have yet to find a well-supported CMS pkg that offers everything like this site does.