Newsgroups

Functionality

• Send email to groups like ug-2021, ASCIT, etc.
• Checks positions table to see if user has position with send, control, receive permissions
• column subscribed in position_holders controls whether the user is subscribed to emails to the group
• Users can post as any position with send permission
• members of group can view previous messages sent
• TinyMCE account: [email protected]

SQL

In donut.sql

newsgroup_posts

Column	Type	Comments
newsgroup_post_id	INT	PK
group_id	INT	References groups.group_id
subject	TEXT	email subject
message	TEXT	email message
post_as	VARCHAR(32)	email from: <group name> <position name> (<user's full name>)
user_id	INT	References members.user_id
time_sent	TIMESTAMP