James, I appreciate the information about PHPBB2. I have considered it. However, the CTO of the web host I use (futurequest.net) has posted in one of their forums: "YaBB and phpBB are not server friendly for large forums... Some of the queries they throw at the MySQL engines can be eye opening, and are frequent visitors in our MySQL Slow Logs... ...many small forums do grow up into large forums... The site owner gets so entrenched in their existing (heavy resource) forums, that they find it either extremely painful or impossible to convert to a more industrial strength forum... The question you have to ask yourself is, 'Would I be willing to switch to another forum, when the time comes, in spite of the uproar/backlash that may emanate from your frequent forum members?' " I know the CTO refers to PHPBB -- perhaps PHPBB2 has improved in server performance. David Shakun __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo -- To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx