Hi Mr. J:

phpBB2 has an unapproved modification to pre-approve messages.
Sometimes the unapproved one works and sometimes they don't. If you
have a gold account on fcpages, they can host a phbBB2 forum. There are
other ways to do it I'm sure. Another thing you might want to consider
is MSN groups. They do have a way to pre-approve messages. They have
sections for photos, web pages, and chat room. It's also real simple to
upload photos so that everyone could do it.

Here is an example of an MSN group page -
http://groups.msn.com/THEDARKSHADOWSFILES/darkshadowsthemepage.msnw
Maggie, Roxanne and I have had this board for several years. It's free.

I added a calendar from Lo Calendar
http://www.localendar.com/public/thedarkshadowsfiles for everyone's
birthday. It's real easy to set it up so that the birthdays repeat from
year to year with only one entry.

I like MSN much better then Yahoo because you can set up an e-mail
or digest format but get everyone's post so you see the entire
discussion. Much easier to follow.

There are other choices such as:
ProBoards http://www.proboards.com/index.html
Invision Free http://invisionfree.com/ which also has a paid option

I'm not sure if ProBoards or Invision has a pre approval feature or
not.

When I was contemplating upgrading my forum from what I had before,
I decided that phpBB2 was the easiest to use. It also was really easy
to create a template for it so I didn't have to use the ugly one it came
with. It's easy to add modications to it to get the features you want.
I may have blown it up a few times learning. But, hey I just
reinstalled and started again. I always work off my hard drive anyway
and save an extra copy.

luv,
victoriawinters

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mrjuggins wrote:

> Hi VictoriaWinters
>
> I tried going to your website again last night and the link worked
> fine. And looked around while I was there. Very nice website!! :)
>
> The main thing I need to know about a message board is does it have
> Pre-Approval of messages? Unfortunately, I really have to have that.
>
> Thanks for offering to help. If php BB2 has pre-approval of messages I
> just might take up up on that. I am already paying for hosting at FC
> Pages. I don't know if php BB2 would work there or not.
>
> Tim



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