Fast, customizable, moderation, upload of user images, user profiles, optional user registration, emoticons, e-mail notification and many other features. Also comes with extensive admin and moderator admin panels to manage all aspects of your forums. Also included is a special setup interface to ensure easy installation.

Slash is a database-driven news and message board, using mod_perl and MySQL. It has been programmed to use persistance for a good deal of its variables to increase speed and efficiency. Slash has all the features and more that you'd ever want in a bulletin-board / message-board system. You can customize it to anything you want, give it any appearance that you want.

The Speakers Corner program combines two functions: a threaded discussion board and an online guestbook. Both are applications where the end user gets the right to write some ascii data to the webserver, which can be read immediately by all other users. The difference is the organisation of the data: with a guestbook, every new contribution is shown on top or on the bottom of the page, with a discussion board reactions on contributions of others will be places togeter with them.

Sporum is an easy to install MySQL database-driven, Web-based dicussion board system written in Perl. Key features include: Forum can be set to six different types - Public forum, Public protected forum, Private forum, Private protected forum, Group private forum, Group private protected forum, Enhanced user profiles with optional user photo support, User information can be either public or private, Cookie-based authentication, Message tracking, Message moderation, Users can edit their own posts at any time, Supports both flat and threaded message organization, File Attachments, Forums Subscription, Email address verification, Search engine, and Extensive forum administration.

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.

TalkShop is a collection of Perl scripts and HTML templates that allow you to run a highly customizable webforum on your website. Through TalkShop, visitors can post new messages, read messages, and respond to messages from other visitors, all via their browser. Messages are displayed in an easy to read threaded format by default, but visitors can also select to view the messages in chronological order, or view a summary of all the active threads in the forum. Features include: Automatic Message Board Maintenance, Multiple Board Control, Multiple Administrator/Moderators, Multiple Views, Nickname Protection, Response Notification, Search Function, Subscription Service, "Guestbook" Mode, and many more.

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.

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.

UltraBoard is a powerful, easy to use, easy to navigate and fully customizable bulletin board system. Includes features such as unlimited message boards, integrated search function, message preview and much more.

VAXbb is a fast, text-only bulletin board for use on the Web. It's written in PERL, and runs on UNIX box (though an NT port should be possible). Its functionality and use is based loosely on a VAX-terminal-based bb system that the author used in school.