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Date:      Wed, 4 Apr 2001 01:03:58 -0300 (ADT)
From:      The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
To:        Charles Burns <burnscharlesn@hotmail.com>
Cc:        <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Free web BBS software
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.33.0104040103480.81918-100000@mobile.hub.org>
In-Reply-To: <F116gStMVhEUsebmspH00000374@hotmail.com>

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On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Charles Burns wrote:

> Is there any good free BBS software out there? I have noticed that most
> messageboards use Infopop's Ultimate Bulletin Board, which seems like a good
> package but is several thousand dollars. O'Reilly's WebBoard is awful and
> for some strange reason, available only for Windows (O'Reilly? Windows??)
> and then there's one done in pure ASP that GameSpy uses, but with
> Chilisoft's immaturity I wouldn't want to run that. (That and ASP under
> Windows is flaky and unpredictable for some reason)
> I was considering starting one up on SourceForge after spending a few months
> getting good at PHP.
> If I were to do this, what do the Unix gods here believe would be the best
> language to do a BBS package in? PHP? Perl? I'd like to stick with one
> language and would very much not like to use any Java. I would also like to
> stick with interpreted languages because of the load time of compiled CGIs,
> other than possibly for the search function which would likely just use
> PostGreSQL or MySQL rather than internal stuff. (Fast search engines are a
> pain... At least to me)
>
> Thanks ahead of time for input
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