YaBB (Yet another Bulletin Board) is a graphic-heavy message board and instant messaging system, written in Perl. Features include: Full administration and moderating options; Ability to change/administer on the fly; Full UBBC code in posts, with error-checking galore (enable/disable); Integrated instant messaging system for member to member; Ability to customize the layout colors and css via a template; Private Boards; Login length options; Delete registered members; Full profile options; Email all registered users; Maintenance Mode for major board administration; Ability to move topics; Simple registration form and option to generate random password; Post icons to designate the message type; Sticky topics and more.

CuteCast bulletin board offer you the perfect combination of speed thrills and knockout features. Whether you want unlimited boards and categories, ability to add your own custom emoticons on the fly, invite-a-friend feature, ranking system or et cetera, CuteCast provides the tools you need to make your homepage more interactive and entertaining.

RPGBoard is a WWWBoard-style message board script. Features: multiple forums, new file format with an auto-archive/compress/delete function, message previewer/editor, spell checker, web-based RPGBoard Configurator, default options and bios for the regulars, different header styles (like WebBBS, the old traditional WWWBoard, and "collapsed threads" mode), ability to collate replies to simulate a non-threaded look, search engine, interactive date/time stamps with timezone capability and recent message color coding, ability for users (and admins) to delete messages, ability to have replies e-mailed to you, ban IP addresses as well as an Ignore List for users, word filter, and much more.

Master Message Board is a Web discussion board system written in Perl. It features: Multiple message boards, Supports private, full public, and read-only forums, User registration and authentication, Easy customization, Administrative options to add/delete, or ban users by ip or e-mail address, and more.

Discus is a free WWW discussion board software package that allows visitors to your site to read and post messages. Some key features of Discus include: Message management tools, Simple, understandable user interface, Easy to install, Remembers what you read (links marked unvisited when new messages posted), Fast loading (messages in a discussion are on the same page), Formatting without HTML, including image and table upload, Public and/or private topics, Keyword and new message search, E-mail notification option and User profiles (e-mail address, full name, change password).

The Ultimate Bulletin Board (UBB) is one of the most popular commercial online discussion forum programs written entirely in Perl. Some of its main features include: Unlimited Forums, Integrated Search Engine, Lost password auto-email, Email notification of replies to topics, Option to email passwords to newly registered users, Private Forums, Email Ban Lists, Read-Only Archives, UBBFriend Feature: Email a Topic to Someone, Ability to close threads, Forum on/off switches, Support for HTML within messages and/or UBB Code, Forum moderator support, User registration system, Full-featured administration/customization through the browser, User profiles that can be updated by users, Ability to edit/delete/prune messages, Word censor capability and IP Logging/Display. The freeware version is limited to 9 forums and is missing most major features of the licensed version.

E-blah is a fast, reliable, and secure bulletin board system. E-blah boasts hundreds of features, which include private messaging, password and member group security for boards, extensive hit logging, polls and sticky threads, search engine for messages, calendar, template themes, multilingual support, and a fully featured administrator center – just to name a few.

The X-Forum bulletin board is a free bulletin board, written in Perl. Includes many powerful features such as guests posting limitations, reply e-mail notification for members, and many moderating tools. All these features are developed keeping importance of security in mind. Easy to install; File paths are automatically detected, and there are no settings that need to be updated before uploading.

Midmart Messageboard lets you run a highly customizable bulletin board with a very nice user interface (similar to Yahoo Clubs) on your web site in few minutes. Other features include: threaded or linear style of messages, 10 messages per page with Next/Previous buttons, newest items at the top, built-in search engine, administrator functions allows the admin to edit or remove any message, very easy to install.

Sporum is an easy to install MySQL database-driven, Web-based dicussion board system written in Perl. Key features include: Forum can be set to six different types - Public forum, Public protected forum, Private forum, Private protected forum, Group private forum, Group private protected forum, Enhanced user profiles with optional user photo support, User information can be either public or private, Cookie-based authentication, Message tracking, Message moderation, Users can edit their own posts at any time, Supports both flat and threaded message organization, File Attachments, Forums Subscription, Email address verification, Search engine, and Extensive forum administration.