Gossamer Forum is a fully threaded, SQL powered forum that runs on Oracle, MS SQL, MySQL or Postgres. It supports features like file uploads, advanced permissions/groups support, WYSIWYG editor, fast and powerful search engine, user friendly design and much more. Gossamer Forum is free for non commercial use, and comes with a 30 day evaluation for commercial users.

AutoForum is a self replicating message forum community script. This is 100% automated and allows for both free and fee based operation. Main features: Unlimited forums; All data is accessed and stored using MySQL; Advanced admin; Complete banner service; Paid members can enable emoticons, search messages, edit message, use their own banners, and turn on the printer friendly link; and Strong security features with flood protection, partial or full IP banning, password protection, and word filter.

ScareCrow is a fully featured and free message board system. It is meant to be both powerful and easy to use, for the users and the administrator. Released under the GPL License, ScareCrow hopes to gather a great community of users and developers to make it the best message board in existance.

NEWBOARD.PL is an easy to use beginner's message board. It is based on Matt's WWWboard script, with better privacy (email addresses are not posted), simplified form layout, and automatic emailing options to inform webmaster and poster of messages and follow-ups. Comes with full instructions and useful help notes. Zip file also contains the original WWWboard script with its administration script.

This script uses HTML embeded Perl code to serve threaded discussions. Perl embedding is done by a small CGI Script. This discussion board is very lightweight and has a very clean output. It intentionally has none of the fancy features of some of the big bulletin boards. It concentrates on serving information. Threads can be generated on the fly or you can have them saved as HTML files for best performance so that search engines can index them. You can run multiple forums with one script or install multiple scripts using the same embeded perl engine. HSPNotes is totally free and the embedded perl engine can be reused for anyother HTML embeded perl scripts.

The main feature of WebBBS is that it allows a user to post messages as well as post replies to existing messages. WebBBS keeps track of which messages are posts and which ones are replies and displays them in a hierarchical tree-like fashion. WebBBS is also fully integrated with the user authentication library. Additionally, it allows a user to restrict the number of messages through a variety of query mechanisms. The user can also conduct a keyword search and select a range of dates within which the viewed messages were posted.

This is a message forum script with such features as multiple topics, ability to reply to the messages and your own customizable headers and footerts.

Slash is a database-driven news and message board, using mod_perl and MySQL. It has been programmed to use persistance for a good deal of its variables to increase speed and efficiency. Slash has all the features and more that you'd ever want in a bulletin-board / message-board system. You can customize it to anything you want, give it any appearance that you want.

Psunami Webboard is an attempt to create a fast, customizable, fully-featured, 'Internet Bulletin Board' system. Current features include: saving, posting, loading and displaying messages, multiple boards, IP and subnet-based banning, cool admin script, html in separate file to make customizing easy, thread name and name length limits, double-post protection, and file locking for all write operations. More features are to be added in future versions.

Kagora is a web forum system, written in Perl, using a MySQL database backend. Features include: Moderation - The Kagora system allows direct as well as moderated forums. In direct forums, messages appear as soon as they're posted. In moderated forums, they need to be previously approved by a moderator; Intuitive interface - Forums appear to the user in three frames: a menu, used for navigation, a list of messages, and a frame used to display messages and to post new messages; Skins - Forums are associated to skins that enable to customize their look; and Support for i18n - All messages produced by the system are grouped in a separate module.

Acity is a web-based, threaded discussion tool. It's *fast*, very intuitive to use, was beta-tested by more than a hundred people, and is now totally stable. Acity remembers each user's preferences, and allows unread-only browsing, like a usenet-news system. It offers the ability to manage several different groups, with different themes, forums and administrators for each group. It runs on any OS that have Apache, mod_perl and a SQL server.

BAZAAR is a fully GPL WWW conferencing program with a MySQL back end. It is based on an earlier version of WWWThreads, but significant changes and enhancements have been made. For example, code has been simplified and many common tasks have been moved into an API to facilitate distributed development. Main features include: Multiple language support (user selectable and easy to add language files), Themes support (selectable at the site level), Profanity filter, Username filter, Error logging, Abililty to restrict users to specified categories by category number, and Fine grain access control using Unix style permissions.

Master Message Board is a Web discussion board system written in Perl. It features: Multiple message boards, Supports private, full public, and read-only forums, User registration and authentication, Easy customization, Administrative options to add/delete, or ban users by ip or e-mail address, and more.

ZenToe is a set of Perl/CGI scripts for running a webchat/BBS, Inspired by Slashdot. It currently features message boards, user account management, and more. ZenToe requires wwwlib.

Ruboard is easy to use, simple, configurable web board - a place where people can discuss things interactively usign their browsers. Although initially based on Matthew Wright's WWWBoard, Ruboard has been completely rewritten to improve stability, configurability and ease of use. Main features include: Stability with file locking, Compatibility with WWWBoard, User registration and password protection options, Ability to post messages, images and url's is controllable through passwords, IP blocking, Multiple language support (Russian and English for now), Controllable size of board, Support for multible boards, A lot of visual enhancements and configuration options, Can add advertisement on every generated page, and more.

FutureForum is a Web-based forum software written in Perl. It uses MySQL for storing data on backend and uses DBI:DBD module. Key features include: uses 'branch_no' design to keep track of 'threads', can display top page of messages with numerous selection or sorting methods, multiple board methodology, configurable max message and branch length vars, optional email responses to user, blocks duplicate messages, option to view only parent threads and expand thread on top page, has 'toggle menu' function on top page, can select by date range and 'new' posts, and other selection criteria, sends response email of message to original poster, automatically displays 'new' button for recent posts, has security routine, and much more.

eThreads is a collection of free GPLed Perl scripts which allows you to run threaded discussion forums on your site. It uses a SQL backend and supports multiple completely customized forums off the same scripts. Other features include: easy web-based forum setup, incremental thread expansion, multiple server support, full forum customization, moderated forum support, language independant coding, and imageset support.

This is a Perl script that allows you to create and manage a discussion forum on your site. Features include: clean interface, easy to set up, small data files, uses common headers and footers (so that you change the look of all pages at any time), automatic archiving of old messages (monthly), and online administration.

This is a modified version of Matt Wright's WWWBoard. Features extended from WWWBoard include: Sorting posted subject by modified time, created time, and subject ID, Forwarding posted message to the specified email addresses, File locking, Supporting template for the posted html files, and Check disk free space before do any operations.

MyBoard is extremly easy message board script written in Perl. It features: user registration, message search function, Web-based admin script, and more.