On 10/23/07, Ross S. W. Walker <rwalker at medallion.com> wrote: > Dave wrote: > > > > I need to quickly setup a temporary BBS/message board system for the > > fires in San Diego. We just want people to post if they have rooms > > available. So I'm looking for a a very simple and easy to get running > > BBS system. Any suggestions? > > Forum style or Wiki style? > > If it is wiki style then mediawiki is a good choice, stable fairly > easy to setup, needs a mysql or postgres backend database, it's at > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki > > If it is more of a Forum style check out SMF at > http://www.simplemachines.org/ > either or as long as I can get it running in 30 minutes or so. I recall having one a number of years ago that used the native DB on all linux boxes. If I recall it used only 2 or so html pages and a flat DB. Both of those seem a little overkill for what I'm looking for.