# How could I set up my own message board on the web?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-could-i-set-up-my-own-message-board-on-the-web/52894
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [February 2, 2001, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-could-i-set-up-my-own-message-board-on-the-web/52894 "2001-02-02T18:14:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@Blunt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blunt)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2001, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-could-i-set-up-my-own-message-board-on-the-web/52894/1 "2001-02-02T18:14:32Z")
I’m looking to set up a message board for a fantasy baseball league that I am running. I will only need it for about a month (until the Yahoo fantasy baseball site is up). Is there anywhere I can go and set up a free message board to conduct this draft? If so, how would I go about creating one?
Thanks
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### Author:  [@Arjuna34](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arjuna34)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2001, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-could-i-set-up-my-own-message-board-on-the-web/52894/2 "2001-02-02T18:22:46Z")
You might try [Yahoo](http://groups.yahoo.com/) (formerly eGroups). They let you set up a free discussion group.
Arjuna34
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### Author:  [@c\_goat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/c_goat)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2001, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-could-i-set-up-my-own-message-board-on-the-web/52894/3 "2001-02-02T21:12:34Z")
I like [http://www.ezboard.com](http://www.ezboard.com)
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### Author:  [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2001, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-could-i-set-up-my-own-message-board-on-the-web/52894/4 "2001-02-02T21:18:35Z")
As well as **ezboard** , the major portals like **Yahoo** (using **egroups** ), **Excite** and so on all run their own club systems. **InsideTheWeb** is another major message board company.
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### Author:  [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2001, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-could-i-set-up-my-own-message-board-on-the-web/52894/5 "2001-02-02T22:21:16Z")
[http://www.delphi.com](http://www.delphi.com)
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### Author:  [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2001, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-could-i-set-up-my-own-message-board-on-the-web/52894/6 "2001-02-02T23:38:35Z")
Its better to do your own with a CGI script from [cgi-resources.com](http://cgi-resources.com)
Otherwise youre going to have a ton of ads on your board.
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### Author:  [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2001, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-could-i-set-up-my-own-message-board-on-the-web/52894/7 "2001-02-03T00:28:34Z")
There appear to be so many places that the question really becomes, “Which is best?”
So I’ll move this thread to IMHO.
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### Author:  [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2001, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-could-i-set-up-my-own-message-board-on-the-web/52894/8 "2001-02-03T16:43:20Z")
You can also get a free version of UBB, which this board runs on.
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### Author:  [@erislover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erislover)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2001, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-could-i-set-up-my-own-message-board-on-the-web/52894/9 "2001-02-04T04:21:22Z")
[http://www.worldwidemart.com/scripts](http://www.worldwidemart.com/scripts)
the WWW Board is ok, but you need to muck around in PERL a little bit. I;m sure every BB will make you do _that_ though. I didn’t have any problems setting it up.
I run into that BB script all over the web, too.
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### Author:  [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2001, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-could-i-set-up-my-own-message-board-on-the-web/52894/10 "2001-02-04T17:07:51Z")
WWW Board? I used it for a long time. Eventually I went to UBB free trial. Mostly because with WWW Board, people could open four or more REPLY windows & hit all at almost the same time. The result was it would make a salad of your HTML board. Because WWW Board couldn’t handle multiple REPLY requests. Someone told me about this once & I have to agree because I got a salad (for lack of a better word)made of my WWW Board many times.
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### Author:  [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2001, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-could-i-set-up-my-own-message-board-on-the-web/52894/11 "2001-02-04T21:27:25Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by handy \*
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> You can also get a free version of UBB, which this board runs on. \*\*
This board runs on vBulletin, not UBB
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### Author:  [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2001, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-could-i-set-up-my-own-message-board-on-the-web/52894/12 "2001-02-09T01:30:48Z")
There’s also [Ikonboard](http://www.ikondiscussion.com/), which is free.
And **handy** , that’s probably the demo version of UBB you’re referring to. It’s not really a free version.
Given the number of registered users, posts, and views it limits you to, and the features it _doesn’t_ have, I don’t think anyone could be satisfied with it.
More info here: [http://www.infopop.com/services\_ubb/services\_ubb\_free.html](http://www.infopop.com/services_ubb/services_ubb_free.html)
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### Author:  [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2001, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-could-i-set-up-my-own-message-board-on-the-web/52894/13 "2001-02-09T03:40:43Z")
I’ve had good luck so far with [http://www.everyone.net](http://www.everyone.net) on my own [Watership Down](http://www.watershipdown.org) website. Rather customizable and professional looking and fits in well with the rest of my site. They also offer other things you may never ever want to use such as email services, etc.