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.

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.

DarkBoard is a simple, bare-bones web BBS written in Perl. It stores all information about messages, except for the message text itself, in a flat text database and generates the message list dynamically.

TD Forum is an unthreaded messageboard script which can provide the perfect vehicle for messaging on your website. Features include: custom 3D graphics buttons, or mode, Administrator auto-identify and Admin IP blocking, posts are tracked numerically for easy locating, allows unlimited messages, tracks IP, date/time of each post, optional profanity filter for censoring posts, allow posters to post URLS, their email address, or neither, optionally display archived messages, browser based admin interface built-in with option to easily archive and modify current posts, use your own top and bottom templates, fully customizable in HTML by you, optionally display messages in table format, ez for you to customize, and more.

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.

This is a modified version of the popular WebBBS script by Darryl C. Burgdorf. The original version is compatible only with UNIX and Sendmail. We've simply ported this wonderful script for Windows NT/BLAT mail.

TalkBack gives your users an opportunity to air their views in a section on your website. Users are given a chance to respond online to a list of articles. The scripts allows you to easily incorporate it into the look and feel of your existing website by the use of simple HTML template files.

Discus is a free WWW discussion board software package that allows visitors to your site to read and post messages. Some key features of Discus include: Message management tools, Simple, understandable user interface, Easy to install, Remembers what you read (links marked unvisited when new messages posted), Fast loading (messages in a discussion are on the same page), Formatting without HTML, including image and table upload, Public and/or private topics, Keyword and new message search, E-mail notification option and User profiles (e-mail address, full name, change password).

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.

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.