need of a web based message board

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 12:12:24PM -0400, Fairlight wrote:
> With neither thought nor caution, Don Bush blurted:
> > our company has a need for some type of a message board for
> > communications with the overseas operations for products being developed.
> > There is a lot of back and forth communications when trying to develop a
> > product.  Each communication needs to be time and date stamped . There
> > is also the need to post images to this board.  All this needs to be web
> > based.  Just looking for suggestions.
> 
> vBulletin, IkonBoard, Gossamer Threads.  Those are some of the more popular
> ones out there.  Avoid PHPBB like the plague, it's a security nightmare
> like you wouldn't believe.  Not sure if they still make Ultimate Bulleting
> Board (UBB) anymore.

I'm not all that fond of web forums, but you might have sufficient
justification for one.  Mackie uses UBB and it's nice.  I was pretty
impressed with vBull as well.

> Did I mention "avoid PHPBB"?  :)  I don't think I can state that loudly or
> often enough.

Second.  :-)

Cheers,
-- jra
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