setting up forums quickly

[Fat Tone]

So if I needed to set up some private forums quickly, how would I do it? Say I had a bunch of people needed a discussion forum where they would be given topics by an administrator. Wouldn't necessarily mind paying.

Ta.

[Fluff]

http://www.cixonline.com/ from back in the old compuserve days

http://conferencing.cixonline.com/

UK too

Else I once participated in a discussion survey and it was online forum based and they used software called qualboard.

http://www.2020research.com/online/index.htm

My bad.....

Maybe investigate BT workspace....

Could be right up your street.

https://www.bt.com/workspace

[Fluff]

See attached

[Brian Ellis]

If you want to do it quickly and easily, go to http://www.simplemachines.org/

It's free-of-charge, to boot.

Flexible and you can have both public and private boards on the same forum.

[Fat Tone]

Thanks guys.

[Nowhere]

If I want a forum, I set up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PunBB

Fast, small, troublefree, easy (also to administer/install; and you'd want to change some things right away after all, most notably "have to register to view forum/subforum" & disabling new/unconfirmed registartions)

There's also good free hosting for small communities (think MURC (seriously, it could handle MURC no problem)), made possible by one of PunBB creators
http://www.punbb-hosting.com/ (hosts quite a bit of forums and has been up for a long time)

Alternativelly...doesn't Google Groups/Yahoo groups have private forums?

edit: ahh, crap, "old" topic, I'm sure you're already set. Oh well, IMHO good to know about PunBB )