E-blah is a fast, reliable, and secure bulletin board system. E-blah boasts hundreds of features, which include private messaging, password and member group security for boards, extensive hit logging, polls and sticky threads, search engine for messages, calendar, template themes, multilingual support, and a fully featured administrator center – just to name a few.

EZMBGEN allows your users to create message boards sites patterned after CGI-Factory's freeware Message Board. The user can control the look, layout and size of the site by specifying choices for font, colors, html usage and self moderating message count limit or use the admin function to delete threads.

With EZWBGEN you'll be able to provide free message board service to your guests. At creation time, the color scheme, admin password, quoting rules, and other display options may be specified. Each board is self moderated, always keeping the number of messages below a value defined during board creation, but the admin function allows more options for deleting messages.

Edcom is an easy to administer, database-driven, multiuser, story posting system, written in perl5. Features include: Complete user management system, Department groupings for convenient customizatios, Preview options so you can see what you're posting before you post, Easy to use Web-driven posting facilities, Total customization via HTML Element Block (HEB) technology, and Built-in mailing list system so Edcom users can receive timely story updates. Databases known to be supported include PostgreSQL and MySQL.

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.

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.

e_Board is a simple, flexible web board script, written in Perl 5 with features including frames layout simplifies navigation, multiple boards support, integrated search function, optional buttons to clear quoted fields, restore utility which will repair your message list file in case of a server error, auto delete/archive, delete messages via e-mail, naughty word filter, message post preview function and new messages are tagged as NEW, and the amount of time that a message remains new is set by the administrator.

This forum program consists of two parts: A Perl 5.004 CGI script, and a Java Applet. It features: Platform independent, Very small - The Applet size is only 22 kB for Microsoft Internet Explorer, 31 kB for Netscape, so it loads and starts very fast, Because the Applet looks and works like normal newsreader software, it is very easy to use, Help texts of all buttons are displayed to make the usage as easy as possible, Automatic URL and E-Mail detection, URLs and E-Mail addresses within a message are automatically detected, and more.

Forum Express is a child of the old Gilland Forum Software. Written to suit small website, FE is extremely fast and reliable. Has only the core features needed, and not all the added fluff of more popular boards.

With just one CGI Perl script ForumScript.co.uk is a simple to install and easy to use Discussion Forum script for small and medium sized websites. You don't need any complicated database system or hundreds of files to get this working.