[surferboy]

I subscribe to .Mac, and I am looking for a way to host a small forum. I have a small group of colleagues with whom I would like to keep in touch and share professional ideas. I have played with iblog- but it seems that only the person who creates the blog can post on the blog- so I am looking for a way for multiple people to be able to post on a site. I guess this would be like a forum or a blog than many can use. Does anyone know the simplest way to do this? Is there any way to use my .Mac account to host such a thing? I have essentially zero coding knowledge- I am a basic enduser- but I am willing to learn a little if it is necessary to accomplish this task. I am aware that there are some automated forum apps out there- I just don't know how to bring them to the web.

Any advice is appreciated.

[Graymalkin]

The easiest way would to build a simple mailing list. Make a group in Address Book with your friends' contacts in it. Fire up Mail and compose a message and then drag that group into the To: box and it will add all of their addresses. Voilà, instant mailing list. If that isn't an option you can create a group on Yahoo! or MSN that will give you some forum-esque capabilities.

[dampeoples]

What about something like a tagboard.com or ezboard.com message board?

[zachs]

Check out www.runboard.com. Or as dampeoples suggested, ezboard.com.

[Forte]

http://www.proboards.com might be suitable, too.

[surferboy]

Thanks for all the advice. I'll check out those options and let y'all know what works.

[surferboy]

I really like probards.com. Seems really easy. Only problem is that some of the things I would like to discuss involve confidential-type information. Proboards is essentially public and monitered by proboards. Any thoughts on another option?

Thanks again.

[turtle777]

Originally posted by surferboy:
I really like probards.com. Seems really easy. Only problem is that some of the things I would like to discuss involve confidential-type information. Proboards is essentially public and monitered by proboards. Any thoughts on another option?

Thanks again.

Well, without having had a close look at all the mentioned options, if it comes to privacy, you're mostly out of luck.

You have to choose between a canned solution with little privacy, or you set everything up yourself on your own server, secure it etc... But that will never come without in-depth knowledge and work on your side...

www.dreamhost.com has webspace with full Unix shell access.
Then you could setup your own forums...

-t

[dampeoples]

Someone mentioned a Yahoo group, you can set those to relatively private.
If you decide to go the hosting route, Nyip is a bit cheaper