I've looked at a few of the different things that people suggested, and so far, phpBB is certainly the best. It has all of the features that I was looking for, plus a bunch of add-ons.
As for the cross-site issues, I'm really not worried about it. For the most part, this is an internal service, so it's only my users that I have to worry about. But, that's a whole different story ;-) C-Ya, Kenny On Mon, 2002-06-03 at 19:04, t wrote: > > phpbb (http://www.phpbb.org seems to be the site) sounds like it does everything you >need. > i noticed someone mentioned ubb (ultimate bulletin board or something similar to >that). my friend used to run ubb off of a p166/64 megs of ram freebsd system, and >found the thing got totally wrecked when about 8 or more users were on it. it wasnt >really the bandwidth that posed the issue, the software was just horribly >ineffecient. anyway, he switched it to phpBB and his problems instantly went away. > one downfall, is ive seen a few CSS (not cascading style sheets; cross site >scripting) problems with phpBB on bugtraq. there arent any known current problems, i >dont think, but i wouldnt say its the most secure code in the world.. > that being said, i also feel CSS is a bit overrated ;). somehow the possibility of >having your cookies from yourdomain.com sent to craxx0rsite.com just doesn't strike >the panic button within me.. > > anyway, concerning ubb, id hope such issues were fixed by now (this was almost a >year ago), but id suggest giving ubb (if you choose it) a bit of a test load before >putting it into production.. > > hope this helps! > > -tom -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Tact is just *not* saying true stuff" -- Cordelia Chase Kenneth E. Lussier Sr. Systems Administrator Zuken, USA PGP KeyID CB254DD0 http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xCB254DD0 ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
