BB/Forum software suggestions

[Randy Edwards]

 > I'm working on creating a bit of a web based family portal/community
 > center and one of the pieces I'm looking at is a forum or bulletin board
 > type service.

   I run a number of PostNuke <http://www.postnuke.com> (and despite the .com, 
it's free GPLed software) sites and know that literally thousands of people 
use it just for such a portal you described.  One of PostNuke's strong points 
is it has a wide variety of modules that you can play with endlessly to give 
add'l features.  Drupal and Mambo also are popular in this area, and a look 
at <http://www.cmsmatrix.org/> will let you compare dozens of similar CMSs.

   For a straight forum, I'll also vote for phpBB.  It's GPL, wildly popular, 
well supported and has a large community.  (And FWIW, PostNuke also has a 
phpBB, in addition to other, forum(s).)

 Regards,
 .
 Randy

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