SCOPE OF THE MULTIWAY

Multiway is a server application software package by which a communication system including Hypertext Transfer Protocol, Network News Transfer Protocol, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, Internet Message Access Protocol, File Transfer Protocol and RSS feed can be built up. This system will mainly provide the following facilities;

• Access to the system platform via HTTP and NNTP.

• Automatic email posting from system to system members.

• System members being capable of posting messages to the groups via sending email.

• RSS feed support.

• Spam filtering for received messages and received emails.

• File transfer among members.

       APLICATIAN AREAS OF THE MULTIWAY

Our project product has wide application areas. All the applications needing interaction with subscribed users are possible to be implemented by other system. Some of these areas are below:

• Distance or Traditional Education: The interaction between teachers and students may be provided by the newsgroups. There may be separate groups for different courses which give the students the opportunity to discuss their ideas and by our chat system which we may implement as an additional feature students can talk to each other online. Students can also upload their homework to the area created by the administrator of the newsgroup of the course.

• Companies: The interaction between managers and workers may be provided by the newsgroups. There may be separate groups for different departments which give the workers the opportunity to discuss the projects and exchange ideas. Workers can also upload their weekly reports to the area created by the administrator of the newsgroup of the department.

• Online Forums: This application can use our web module. People exchange ideas and share files on the web by subscribing to the forums formed by different newsgroups. File sharing will be managed by the administrator of each newsgroup.