My life would become a lot easyer if it was possible to have a forum where the threads were only visible to the moderators and the user who posted the thread.

It would also be great if there was a way to label threads. We're using vbulletin as a support base and it would be great if our users could see a simple label (next to the reply number) that the job will be finished in X days.

leah r - Could you provide some links to some of these news scripts?

Thanks..
Herb

http://doins.sourceforge.net/
http://phpweblog.org/
http://sic.box5.net/
http://www.tinews.net/index_1.php
http://squash.ciberlinux.net/demo/
http://phpslash.org

Visit http://bbs.essenvision.com:1281/bbs/0?0100
login name: john
password: 551230

Features:
Private message;
Instant message;
Chat room;
Private chat room;
Personal setting with image upload;

I think every on will like the hack!!

Stallion beat me to the punch. He hit all the major ones I can think of except http://www.atthat.com/. See these sites for much more:

http://www.sourceforge.net/
http://www.freshmeat.net/
http://www.hotscripts.com/

[Edited by leah r on 06-14-2000 at 03:43 AM]

Hey, who here uses sp0rk (tinews.net), and has a good version?
It's an enigma to me :)

Simple Hack - Make it so that we have the option to remove the "no icon" from the Message Icons and the Post Icon (grey paper looking icon) is chosen by default if the user does not choose a different icons - assuming message icons are enabled.