On 25 Oct 2003 at 16:03, Kevin Tarr wrote: > At 07:30 PM 10/25/2003 +0100, you wrote: > > >On Saturday, October 25, 2003, at 06:15 pm, Kevin Tarr wrote: > >>Okay, really the last: My hometown has a message board/forum. They > >>were seeking donations to keep it open. While the price was nominal > >>I was wondering how much it really costs to operate something like > >>this. I'm not considering this as a business venture, but I'm > >>wondering along these lines: if someone in their house set up a > >>computer that was dedicated for a forum what would it take to do > >>correctly? Could an older 'puter do it with a different OS? > > > >Yes. > > > >> I'm not worried about the costs, unless it was astronomical. If a > >> person already has a cable modem and a router, other than the > >> computer cost and the electricity (and the time) it should be free, > >> right? > > > >Yes. Something like phpBB/Apache/MySQL. > > > >>We should be able to get a free URl, because it's not for profit? > >>I'm probably very confused about this. > > > >Maybe $5 to $10 a year with website and email-forwarding. > > > >William T Goodall > > > Just so I'm not reading this wrong: I don't want e-mail forwarding. I > want a forum web-posting site. The usual bells and whistles: > searchable post archive, maybe a naughty word filter, other than > blocking service attacks, letting unregistered users post (unless the > member list could be kept really secure), and a few non-local people > have access to be able to delete posts and topics for the obvious > reasons. > > 5 or 10 is a lot lower than the 80 the current board is asking for.
phpBB and Invision Board are both free. Invision has a very good filter for conversions from other boards (you likely have vB or UBB), and I find it more stable than phpBB although it's harder to skin. Andy Dawn Falcon _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
