download all topics with replies of a forum for offline later

[sunandoghosh]

Respected Techies and dear friends...

One question...?

How can i download all topics with replies of a forum for offline later viewing/reading...?

Obviously one way is opening each topic and saving the web page but its too time consuming...as there may be hundreds of topics in a forum with each topic having multiple replies...

what i am looking for is any way in which all topics/replies from a particular forum gets downloaded....?

(the best ideal solution which i am looking for is say a forum available offline as if i am online)

any software / program...(not requiring programming as i dont know programming...)...?

Thanks and regards

sunando

[Casethejoint]

Hi there Sunandoghosh. Three thoughts:

a) Most forum packages allow email notification, and some can be configured to send the entire contents of a new post - it's then up to the user to organise the threads using their mail program.

b) It sounds like a list-serv of some sort might be a better option if you want participants to keep copies of entire threads.

c) Drupal can be configured to integrate list-servs with forums, although it's quite cumbersome and not for the faint of heart.