These resources will allow you to set up free e-mail and mailing list services for your website.
HOSTED MESSAGE BOARDS These message boards are hosted by third-parties, and generally offer less features than those that would reside on your own server. The positives however include far easier setup. Ezboard Easy, free setup of message boards with web-based administrative tools, unlimited discussion forums, and customization of the appearance of your board. Also offers premium ezSupporter services with additional features and no advertising. http://www.ezboard.com SERVER-SIDE MESSAGE BOARDS These message boards, while more difficult to setup, offer hundreds of features and complete customization of your board. However, many charge license fees, though there are free options and trial versions available. Jarvis Ikonboard A free comprehensive web bulletin board system with extensive template and skin customization features, multi-lingual support, support for Perl, PHP, and PostgresSQL, MySQL, and Oracle databases. Also offers My Ikonboard, a remotely hosted version of the software. http://www.ikonboard.com phpBB phpBB is a high powered, fully scalable, and highly customisable open-source bulletin board package. A user-friendly interface, administration panel are amongst it's many features. Based on the powerful PHP server language and your choice of MySQL, MS-SQL, PostgreSQL or Access/ODBC database servers. http://www.phpbb.com Infopop Ultimate Bulletin Board The classic message board software, a fast, efficient, and customizable bulletin board based with Perl and MySQL-based versions available. Web-based administration software allows you to manage your board. http://www.infopop.com/product/ubb vBulletin vBulletin is a powerful, scalable and fully customisable forums package for your web site. Based on the PHP language, vBulletin is backed with a MySQL back-end database, powerful search abilities, extensive administrative options, and offers hundreds of features. The Official Linkin Park Message Board runs vBulletin. http://www.vbulletin.com *This menu requires Internet Explorer (IE) 5.0 or higher  For non-IE browser, click here to go back to Development Resources page.
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