I'm looking for a "free" forum site to start a forum/bulletin board. Preferably with a threaded message view if possible.

Any recommendations?
Thanks

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I tried googling and found many sites: (though i dont know much in detail about it)
Free forum sites

There is one called phpBB forum software which is free and its code can be added to our site.

Regards,
Paramesh.

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Well, I googled too. I was looking for personal recommendations, not simply a list. That I can find by myself...

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Cow: You're a lawyer too?
Mooseblood (mosquito): Ma'am, I was already a bloodsucking parasite. All I needed was a briefcase!

I am terribly sorry for that post.
I just wanted to give you some information but i was somewhat confused. (i expected this once i posted. )
(since i dont know much about this).
I wont do this again.

But i have seen phpBB forums most often when i visit a forum site.

Sorry again,
Paramesh

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I started this site with phpBB. It's as good as vbulletin until about (vbulletin's version 3+).

Threaded views? I believe Phorum used to feature threaded views.

There is a (local car) site I visit sometimes and they are using SMF, which does a fine job I think.

Paramesh, posting links (when it was not requested) and especially links to search engine result pages is something I discourage on this site. We're all here to discuss, and most people were already using a search engine when they found this site

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Hey Walt, how simple (or complex) are your needs? While I was lamed up I had time for lots of search engine fishing and reading. One of the things I was looking into was a simple, configurable, php driven package. I believe one I found that looked promising was from bblog.com. In their forums there is a thread that has some member signature links to sites using the software.

Perhaps it would be of interest for you. I haven't given it a run yet to see if it will work in a stripped down simple way for my site. It does look promising though.

HTH,
Mark

EDIT:
You know Walt, after re-reading your post I don't think my suggestion was what you were after. For some reason (most likely since I was looking for something similar) I was thinking simpler than your needs. I'll keep an eye out though if you are interested in a php driven package.

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Basically, all I want is a place that I can set-up a forum (a la ProBoards or FreeForum) that includes a threaded view for participants, not just a chronological list. The ZTree Forum is an excellent example. By the way, I highly HIGHLY recommend to any power user out there ZTree as a replacement for the mostly useless Windows Explorer/My Computer functions. This sucker is fast, small, intuititve, and keyboard driven for user speed.

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It seems like my subtle attempt to talk you out of looking for hosted solution didn't work!

Looking for one with threaded views is tough. All I have seen are the ones listed in the free hosting forum and they are all mostly powered by phpBB -- at least the recent ones.

A quick search yielded http://server.com/communityapps/discussionapp/ which comes close to what you're looking for but it's not free.

Now I have to ask: "Why Remotely Hosted?"

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Oh, it wasn't that subtle...

Because where my pages are parked (with my ISP) no PHP, no ASP, no Perl. IOW, static pages only.

Looks like http://worldcrossing.com/ might be what I'm looking for. At least so far.

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Have you looked at slashcode? It's the same "forum" that Slashdot uses.

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