[gopherhockey]

This hack does what you are asking. There is a footer stuck in there showing a link to your profile and a link to the thread where the message was posted etc.

Expiring stuff can be handled by vb automatically - you can set how long you want to keep things and purge what you don't wish to keep. (lets you keep things around longer than your server, in case you want it there for reference etc.)

I use the pop3 feature to be able to email directly to a forum. (but only use this sparingly and don't advertise the address to many) - e.g. I subscribe to various sales or subscription emails that are related to my boards content and have those automatically show up in a forum as a post without having to do it manually. SPAM for this is controlled by my own server before it gets to the email account, then the hack pulls the messages using pop3 from my server.

I even set it up so posts going to my forums via NNTP are not counted in the rest of my vb systems statistics, so users aren't flooded with usenet garbage when they log in, but only see actual posts from local (registered) users.

But like I said, I haven't played with the other one much since it did not work for me initially. From what I remember I too compared them and liked some of the features this one had - plus it seems to get more support. I could be wrong, I'm sure the other one is good too. I know you won't go wrong with this one though, it is one of the most useful hacks I have (and may even cause me to wait before upgrading to vb3 until the hack is made compatible)

Hope that helps?