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With less than 5% of world population the USA has over 2.3 million of 9.2 million world prisoners! The majority of U.S. inmates are in due to the drug war.

Most Republican leaders oppose cheap universal healthcare. 45,000 uninsured Americans die each year due to lack of health insurance.

Suggestions for message board use, software, hosts, etc.. SmartWrap instant rewrapper. How-to info for copying charts, etc. into forums. Suggestions for forum improvement.
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*Table of Contents. After text loads, click topics below. Click TopLink, back button, or HomeKey to return here fast. *Introduction and disclaimer. *Board software, hosts. Free and paid. *Independent Media Centers. How-to. *BOARDS that make URLs clickable. *BOARDS. With reply titles showing. *BOARDS that accept HTML. *BOARDS that show number of hits. *SmartWrap program. *Copying charts into forums. *Drug War charts, and more.

Introduction. [TopLink]

Some of the info on this web page may be outdated.

For a link list of message boards go to this web page:

*FORUMS. Message boards, bulletin boards, Independent Media Center websites. Progressive, cannabis, drug reform, and more. Suggestions for forum improvement.
http://corporatism.tripod.com/forums.htm and
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/forums.htm

Some of the previous suggestions that were here have been deleted. Go to the web page linked above and check out the many links to forums and decide for yourself what features you like in various forums, bulletin boards, etc..

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Forum software, hosts. Free and paid. [TopLink]

*ProBoards.com - Free Remotely Hosted Message Boards!
http://www.proboards.com

*phpBB.com :: Creating Communities. Free forum software.
http://www.phpbb.com

*UBBCentral Home. Popular commercial forum software.
http://www.ubbcentral.com

*The CGI Resource Index Programs and Scripts Perl Bulletin Board Message Systems.
http://cgi.resourceindex.com/Programs_and_Scripts/Perl/Bulletin_Board_Message_Systems/

*Open Directory - Computers: Bulletin Board Systems: Software.
http://dmoz.org/Computers/Bulletin_Board_Systems/Software/

*Yahoo! Computers and Internet > Internet > Chats and Forums.
http://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/Chats_and_Forums/

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Independent Media Center news forums. [TopLink]

*Independent Media Centers. Indymedia. Many cities worldwide. Nearly all have open publishing of articles. Nearly all allow anybody to make comments to articles.
http://www.indymedia.org

IndyMedia.org (the link below) is the main home page, and it links to fresh news from the rest of the Indymedia sites. It is the overall global homepage and has some of the best news reporting from around the world. Most of the IndyMedia websites have links to most of the other IndyMedia city, state, national, regional, and topical websites.

Most Indymedia sites automatically convert full-URL web addresses in posted articles into clickable links. In other words any URL starting with http:// will be a clickable link in articles and comments.

At IndyMedia sites one can VIEW and/or instantly POST news, comments, text, audio, photos, and videos. Mass incarceration, police brutality, the prison-industrial complex, the drug war, etc. are just a few of the many issues reported on.

Anybody can post stuff. From the simplest plain text you paste or type in at the moment, to more advanced stuff such as multimedia reports, video, audio, photos, html, web pages, etc..

IndyMedia sites usually have extensive text, audio, photo, and video archives. With search engines. You can even create search shortcut URLs that you can post anywhere.

NETWORK FAST! Html-formatted posts are a great way to post news and images at IndyMedia. When you post html, don't forget to choose "html format" from the IndyMedia publish page dropdown box.

When you submit some drug-war-related news to IndyMedia, you can also add in any of the clickable links, descriptions, charts, tables, etc. from the World Drug War Website pages, or other web pages. Feel free!

For html pastes: While viewing any web page in the MS Internet Explorer web browser, click "source" from the "view" menu to see the html code in a Notepad or Wordpad window. Copy and paste any of the html code that you desire for IndyMedia posts.

For more details on creating html pages and html-formatted posts, see

*WEB PAGES, Instantly. Just add text and stir! Take messages, email, articles, and info to the next clickable level. To the web. For free! Create web pages easily with free easy-to-use web page editors, and host the web pages for free on many free web hosts. Free domain names. Easy uploading of web pages. Fight the drug war in style.
http://corporatism.tripod.com/webpages.htm and
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/webpages.htm

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PUBLIC Message BOARDS that make URLs CLICKABLE. [TopLink]

There are many message boards where anybody can view the public messages. Without registration or logging in.

There are many message boards that automatically convert exposed, web address URLs in messages into clickable links. They are no longer listed in this section because there are so many such boards, and because forums sometimes change their software to either enable or disable automatic URL conversion 

Usually the boards require the full URL starting with http:// in order for the software to convert the URL to a clickable link.

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PUBLIC Message BOARDS. With REPLY TITLES showing. [TopLink]

A suggestion for message board designers:

Show the titles of both original messages and all their replies. This allows readers to easily and quickly scan the titles of both messages and replies. In order to see what is worth opening, viewing, and/or replying to. It also allows people to see NEW replies easily. It is even more helpful if the titles have dates. Some boards have buttons to choose between "expanded" (or "view threads") and "collapsed" views of titles. Expanded view shows original and reply titles. The collapsed view shows just the titles of originating messages in threads. It is much more convenient if ALL (not just in one thread) the titles and replies in a certain time period are expanded or collapsed when the option is clicked. "Boardview" at the Cannabis.com boards shows the expanded view. Here are some forums below that have the option to show reply titles. http://www.cannabis.com/boards/ Cannabis.com. Check out politics board. http://www.cannabisculture.com/cgi/wwwthreads/wwwthreads.pl Cannabis Culture.

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PUBLIC Message BOARDS that accept HTML. [TopLink]

Using html in messages allows colors, multiple fonts, multiple font sizes, images, tables, and much more. For copying and pasting html into forums that accept html, use your browser to go to a web page you like, and then click "source" in the view menu. The view menu is the one to use in MS Internet Explorer web browser. From the source html text, copy the parts that you want to put in your messages.

Here are a few of the forums that accept HTML.

*IndyMedia.org boards. Independent media center progressive news forums worldwide. These news boards usually have a dropdown menu for selecting "html format." Use this when pasting in html.
http://www.indymedia.org/

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PUBLIC Message BOARDS that show number of views. [TopLink]

There are many boards that show the cumulative number of hits (number of views) that each thread has received so far. This is a good way over time to see what kind of messages interest people.

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SmartWrap program. [TopLink]

*SmartWrap word-wrapping how-to. Also, Notetab Light (freeware). Great programs for cleaning up laddered text, jumbled text, and multi-person threads with multiple >>chevrons>>. Wordwrap to fit any monitor screen, or re-wrap to a specific column width of 72 characters (for example).
http://corporatism.tripod.com/smart.htm and
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/smart.htm

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COPYING CHARTS. Pasting into forums. [TopLink]

Some tags:

[pre]
[code]
<font face=Courier New>

These allow the charts to be pasted into various message boards!

Here is why:

UBBThreads BOARD TIP: The "pre" tag for UBBThread-enabled message boards. The chart columns will line up because the tag will force the use of a fixed-width font. From the first tag up until the closing tag.
[pre] [/pre]

UBB BOARD TIP: The "code" tag for UBB-enabled message boards. The chart columns will line up because the tag will force the use of a fixed-width font. From the first tag up until the closing tag.
[code] [/code]

HTML MESSAGE BOARD TIP: The basic html code to get a fixed-width (monospace or monotype) Courier font. The chart columns will line up because the tag will force the use of a fixed-width font. From the first tag up until the closing tag.
<font face=Courier New> </font>

If the particular board allows both UBB tags and HTML tags, choose the HTML tag. It will produce a larger easier-to-read text size in the chart than the "code" tag will. 

In UBBThreads boards choose the "pre" tag over the "code" tag. It produces larger text.

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For related how-to info:

*Copying and pasting to forums. Charts, plain text, URLs, html. This article is mostly about copying pages, or parts or pages, to forums, bulletin boards, email lists, and newsgroups.
http://corporatism.tripod.com/copypaste.htm and
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/copypaste.htm

*Steal this website. World Drug War Website. Various ways to copy pages, or parts of pages, to anywhere. "Save as" a complete web page, HTML only, an archive, or as text. Offline browser how-to. How-to and tips about saving pages, relative links, absolute links, quick links, TOC (Table of Contents) links, images, site maps, mirror pages, offline books with indexes, passing on folders, pasting pages into email, etc..
http://corporatism.tripod.com/steal.htm and
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/steal.htm

*NEWS sites worldwide. Commercial, nonprofit, or independent media. Many links to progressive news archive sites, including drug war press archive sites. Various ways to copy or pass on stuff. Freely passing on public domain, non-copyrighted, material. Posting copyrighted press and media articles on non-profit websites. Fair Use and Public Domain laws.
http://corporatism.tripod.com/fairuse.htm and
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/fairuse.htm

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Drug War charts, and more. [TopLink]