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Old Aug 19, 2007 | 9:33 pm
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How Do You Set Up A Bulletin Board On The Web?

I would like to set up a website for my old high school classmates to keep in touch.

Ideally, this site would have:
  1. A unique URL, e.g. seniorhigschool.com;
  2. The ability of any member to start a thread;
  3. The ability to post pictures within threads;
  4. The ability to have member pictures along with names on each posting.

In fact, this could look a lot like the FT forums with the last two items changed.

Here's what I have already looked at and why I don't like it:
Classmates.com. Poorly functional software. Subscription charge for each member.

Blogger.com. Only the blog "owner" can start a thread or post a picture. Everyone else can only make text comments.

Facebook.com (Groups function). Not bad, but no individual URL for the group and no ability to insert pictures within messages.
Is this a crazy idea? Beyond the cost of the domain main is the cost of running such a board so high as to make this project prohibitive?

Any ideas and suggestions will be much appreciated.
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