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The Ultimate Bulletin Board (UBB) is one of the most popular commercial online discussion forum programs written entirely in Perl. Some of its main features include: Unlimited Forums, Integrated Search Engine, Lost password auto-email, Email notification of replies to topics, Option to email passwords to newly registered users, Private Forums, Email Ban Lists, Read-Only Archives, UBBFriend Feature: Email a Topic to Someone, Ability to close threads, Forum on/off switches, Support for HTML within messages and/or UBB Code, Forum moderator support, User registration system, Full-featured administration/customization through the browser, User profiles that can be updated by users, Ability to edit/delete/prune messages, Word censor capability and IP Logging/Display. The freeware version is limited to 9 forums and is missing most major features of the licensed version.

The X-Forum bulletin board is a free bulletin board, written in Perl. Includes many powerful features such as guests posting limitations, reply e-mail notification for members, and many moderating tools. All these features are developed keeping importance of security in mind. Easy to install; File paths are automatically detected, and there are no settings that need to be updated before uploading.

YaBB (Yet another Bulletin Board) is a graphic-heavy message board and instant messaging system, written in Perl. Features include: Full administration and moderating options; Ability to change/administer on the fly; Full UBBC code in posts, with error-checking galore (enable/disable); Integrated instant messaging system for member to member; Ability to customize the layout colors and css via a template; Private Boards; Login length options; Delete registered members; Full profile options; Email all registered users; Maintenance Mode for major board administration; Ability to move topics; Simple registration form and option to generate random password; Post icons to designate the message type; Sticky topics and more.

E-blah is a fast, reliable, and secure bulletin board system. E-Blah has literally thousands of features. A couple of the features include: a fully featured Administrator Center, powerful private messaging system, powerful security model for boards and categories, detailed logs and stats of the forum system, basic moderating options (sticky threads, merging threads, splitting threads, locking threads), a built-in portal, news, online user, and calendar-event syndication via an RSS feed, forum modification, language, and theme support, search engine friendly URLs, among many other features.

An online message board script with a user-friendly interface with icons for easy navigation and posting. Using the admin tools, board owners can delete and filter "bad words" from the posts. The global board header and footer can be easily customized by modifying a few lines on the bottom of the 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.

CuteCast bulletin board offer you the perfect combination of speed thrills and knockout features. Whether you want unlimited boards and categories, ability to add your own custom emoticons on the fly, invite-a-friend feature, ranking system or et cetera, CuteCast provides the tools you need to make your homepage more interactive and entertaining.

Very fast, all texts and HTML used are 100% customizable (this also makes it language friendly for any other languages), search engine friendly URLs, user profiles, upload of user images, emoticons, voting polls, e-mail notification, built-in search engine, comes with extensive administrator and moderator admin panels and many other comprehensive features. Easy to install.

CGIForum is an attempt to build a good, light-weight, free forum that does not require you to display the author's name or some kind of other advertisement and needs no database server. It features: Template-based easy customization, User registration, Expandable/collapsible threads of unlimited depth, Message search engine, and Web-based admin to manage the overall forum.

CommunityForums is based on the powerful membership system and combines speedy, attractive forums with customization tools to give your members more creative control. Features: Unlimited forums, private and read-only forums, fast search function, individual membership page, message referral function, subscription to forums, email notification, moderators and administrators, and more. Shares an integrated backend - account management, billing, advertising, templates and administration - with over 25 other pluggable software modules. You can add grow your site as your needs expand all using a single integrated suite. No more multiple logins and inconsistencies.

Midmart Messageboard lets you run a highly customizable bulletin board with a very nice user interface (similar to Yahoo Clubs) on your web site in few minutes. Other features include: threaded or linear style of messages, 10 messages per page with Next/Previous buttons, newest items at the top, built-in search engine, administrator functions allows the admin to edit or remove any message, very easy to install.

The ActiveBoard is a powerful, multi-threaded, easy to use, easy to navigate and fully customizable message board system. It will provide you with a flexible, selectible, and reliable discussion area for your Web site. It also features: multi-user administration, banning the specified IP's of spamers and infringers, custom colors, styles, colors and styles for fonts, buttons and text areas, and more.

This message board emulates one of the major Webmaster Resource message boards and works very well. Along with great admin functions it is truly an easy to maintain board.