HyperNews  

HyperNews is a cross between the hypermedia of the WWW and Usenet News. Readers can browse through the messages written by other people and reply to those messages. A forum (also called a base article) holds a tree of these messages, displayed as an indented outline that shows how the messages are related. Users can become members of HyperNews or subscribe to a forum in order to get email whenever a message is posted, so they don't have to check if anything new has been added. A recipient can then send a reply email back to HyperNews, rather than finding a browser to write a reply, and HyperNews then places the message in the appropriate forum.

Price: Free

   Web Based Message Board  

Features: Data file for stored messages has been changed so each posting is on one line. The Admin tools have been combined with the Message Listings screen. This makes it much easier to delete an unwanted posting or postings by selecting them with the mouse, enter the password, then click "delete". Allows you to send the script a "gobackurl" so you can configure where the exit button will take the user. Easily configure the Title displayed when the board is called. Contains a "bad words" filter which will delete any banned word when a user is posting. You can also change global Header, Footer HTML by changing the print_header and print_footer routines at the end of the script.

Price: Free

   Lyles Bulletin Board System  

This program runs as a simple bbs. Allowing your visitors to add messages or reply to messages on the board. You can customize the look and feel of the board displaying different table colours for reply messages and main messages and choosing your own font, fontsize, and fontcolour. You can also select the maximum posts for the board. The admin feature allows you to delete messages.

Price: Free

   BBMATIC  

This script runs a Bulletin Board System. Users post questions and comments and followup responses can be attached.

Price: Free

   WWWBoard  

WWWBoard is a threaded World Wide Web discussion forum and message board, which allows users to post new messages, followup to existing ones and more.

Price: Free

   MessageBulletin  

MessageBulletin has several features: Easy to install and use; messages stored in seperate files; date printed out; customize look of MessageBulletin and postings; checks for missing information; unlimited Threads; preview before submit post; allow HTML in post switch; reply in discussion forum; reply in discussion forum and e-mail; uses only one main script; InterNIC whois check for valid e-mail; require e-mail address switch; expiration Date on/off switch; detects unusually long words; fast loading HTML code; helpful error messages.

Price: Free

   Edcom  

An easy to administer, multiuser, story posting system, written in perl 5.

Hosting Requirements: Perl 5
Price: Free

   Future Forum  

FutureForum is a web discussion forum, written in Perl, using MySQL, DBI:DBD and CGI.pm, and authored by Peter F. Brown. The messages are threaded, and are contained in a MySQL table. The top page has a menu that allows sorting and filtering, with a number of defaults, such as viewing new records.

Database: MySQL
Price: Free

   Kagora  

Kagora is a web forum system, written in Perl, using a MySQL database backend. Features: Moderation, intuitive interface, search capability, flat and threaded display and more.

Hosting Requirements: Perl
Database: MySQL
Price: Free

   eThreads  

eThreads is a database-driven content engine written in Perl which supports the display of many different kinds of content using modules. Modules included in the distribution include forums (eThreads' native format), directories, weblogs, and calendars. The look and operation of glomules is inherently flexible, with full look customization and a plugin system to tweak functionality. The architecture also allows many different glomules to be run off a single installation.

Price: Free