ScareCrow is a fully featured and free message board system. It is meant to be both powerful and easy to use, for the users and the administrator. Released under the GPL License, ScareCrow hopes to gather a great community of users and developers to make it the best message board in existance.

The Binary Board System (BBS) is a complete Perl/SQL bulletin board solution. Its features include a complete user login system, a multi-board interface with easy administration and categorization, and ease of customization that sets it apart from the rest.

Gossamer Forum is a fully threaded, SQL powered forum that runs on Oracle, MS SQL, MySQL or Postgres. It supports features like file uploads, advanced permissions/groups support, WYSIWYG editor, fast and powerful search engine, user friendly design and much more. Gossamer Forum is free for non commercial use, and comes with a 30 day evaluation for commercial users.

This script allows you to run message boards, similar to the WWW newsboards. Main features include: every user gets his/her password and thus only he/she can use his/her unique name, messages can be removed from the board by the writers, the board's administrater can log every action, there are several options to customize the board's design, single messages, whole threads or the whole content of the board can be emailed, and more.

The Speakers Corner program combines two functions: a threaded discussion board and an online guestbook. Both are applications where the end user gets the right to write some ascii data to the webserver, which can be read immediately by all other users. The difference is the organisation of the data: with a guestbook, every new contribution is shown on top or on the bottom of the page, with a discussion board reactions on contributions of others will be places togeter with them.

FutureForum is a Web-based forum software written in Perl. It uses MySQL for storing data on backend and uses DBI:DBD module. Key features include: uses 'branch_no' design to keep track of 'threads', can display top page of messages with numerous selection or sorting methods, multiple board methodology, configurable max message and branch length vars, optional email responses to user, blocks duplicate messages, option to view only parent threads and expand thread on top page, has 'toggle menu' function on top page, can select by date range and 'new' posts, and other selection criteria, sends response email of message to original poster, automatically displays 'new' button for recent posts, has security routine, and much more.

Message board featuring: Free or fee based membership subscribing, users can post/edit/delete/reply messages with photos and multimedia files; Search messages with keywords, photos, topics, posted by a user; Mail Lists; Script can work with text based or MySQL databases.

bbBoard v2 is the best message board software, guaranteed*! bbBoard is completely customisable and code-modifiable, in various languages. Because of bbBoard's clean interface and auto-installation and updation features, it makes it an uncomplicated tool for even the novice computer user! bbBoard can be accessed using a cellular phone (WAP), NNTP, Telnet, and MSN Messenger. And you still can interact by posting, sending PMs, using the Chat feature, visiting the Calendar or posting a webcam recording.

The X-Forum bulletin board is a free bulletin board, written in Perl. Includes many powerful features such as guests posting limitations, reply e-mail notification for members, and many moderating tools. All these features are developed keeping importance of security in mind. Easy to install; File paths are automatically detected, and there are no settings that need to be updated before uploading.

NEWBOARD.PL is an easy to use beginner's message board. It is based on Matt's WWWboard script, with better privacy (email addresses are not posted), simplified form layout, and automatic emailing options to inform webmaster and poster of messages and follow-ups. Comes with full instructions and useful help notes. Zip file also contains the original WWWboard script with its administration script.