[olug] Misc. hardware.......... - dedicated list?

[Luke -Jr]

1) spam spam spam -- especially with phpBB
2) security vulnerabilities -- especially with phpBB
3) sifting through taken stuff
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On Thursday 04 October 2007, Obi-Wan wrote:
> What's wrong with setting up a forum of for sale / wanted stuff using
> something like PHPBB?  Start a new thread for each group of stuff.
> Lurkers don't need to subscribe -- just email the seller.  The seller
> can update the thread when items are no longer available.  Items will
> be archived indefinitely, which is good for hard-to-unload items.  It's
> also searchable by Google for people who don't know to look directly
> at this forum, or by PHPBB's internal search mechanism for people who
> know to come here.
>
> I've been running PHPBB for my own forums at jedi.com
> (http://forums.jedi.com) for over a year now.  It takes very little
> resources, and is trivial to manage.  Heck, I could even create a forum for
> this stuff on my existing site if you guys want -- or you could use my
> existing "computer hardware" forum.  It doesn't get much traffic currently.