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.

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.

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 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.

This program creates an "Archive" of all messages in a WWWBoard, sorted by message number or list order, creates a txt file that can be viewed or ZIP'ed for download by users.

Discus Pro is a commercial add-on to the popular Discus WWW discussion board software package. Some additional features in Discus Pro include: Private reading topics, User self-registration (automatic, queued, or e-mail verified), Automatic archiving and pruning by conversation length, Manual archiving and pruning by date, IP banning, IP-based authentication, Message editing (users edit own messages within 30 minutes), Backup and restore built in, Attachment uploading (documents, text files, binaries), Log analysis tools and Preferences of users stored to control board options.

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.

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.

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.