Should TLLTS move its forum to SMF

[Jza]

So recently I have been an SMF advocate because I have seen too many PHPBB fall into spam. Since I dont want to get spam from tllts but have heard the continous complain about spam. I will recomend tllts to migrate to SMF. SMF has proven to be more secure, much more security tootls to protect it even more.

So basically I am putting the case to migrate, migration wotn be that hard since SMF has a migratory scripts from phpBB into SMF.
http://www.simplemachines.org/download/?converters

[greggh]

Absolutely not. Phpbb's license is GPL and SMF is not. There are also some very simple question/answer registration mods, one of which I think Dave Yates wrote and talked about on his LottaLinuxLinks.com podcast, that are very effective at cutting down the spammers. Besides, phpbb3 RC1 is just around the corner.

[snarkout]

PHP does have a fairly horrible security history, though - on par with sendmail, I'd imagine.

[Linc]

So recently I have been an SMF advocate because I have seen too many PHPBB fall into spam. Since I dont want to get spam from tllts but have heard the continous complain about spam. I will recomend tllts to migrate to SMF. SMF has proven to be more secure, much more security tootls to protect it even more.

So basically I am putting the case to migrate, migration wotn be that hard since SMF has a migratory scripts from phpBB into SMF.
http://www.simplemachines.org/download/?converters

Actually, I run SMF myself at http://linc.homeunix.org:8080/board/ and I really like it. I have only had maybe 5 spam posts there the entire time it has been up.

[Patrick]

Since we've required registrations to post message we've had 0 spam postings. Granted the admins have to check the new registrations for spam bots everyday. For the most part they're pretty easy to spot. When in doubt, delete. A real person will come back and enter some information in the fields to let us know they're genuine.

[Jza]

PHP does have a fairly horrible security history, though - on par with sendmail, I'd imagine.

I dont think so, PHP is very simple but there has been some lazy coders. You can argue that C has had many bugs except most of the error were programmer erros.

[snarkout]

Erm, yeah.

http://www.php-security.org/

[Jza]

This is also another forum that looks pretty good. I like the deisign and simplicity. Is a biit less cluttered:
http://newsboard.unclassified.de/

Audacity uses it and is fully GPL:
http://audacityteam.org/forum/forum

It has interesting features like Jabber IM support, fully XHTML 1.0 compatible.

[danielrigano]

PHP is very simple but there has been some lazy coders

I thinik PHP is the favorite language of most lazy coders.

[davijordan]

No matter what language you use, after building enough libraries of standard routines then all programmers get lazy.
It is good to be lazy! Sta bene?
<ctrl-d>

[dann]

I thinik PHP is the favorite language of most lazy coders.

Hey, I resemble that remark!

[snarkout]

HOLY THREAD FROM THE DEAD, BATMAN!!!

[Tsuroerusu]

HOLY THREAD FROM THE DEAD, BATMAN!!!

No kidding!! What's with these zombies running around!

[allix]

its like the tabloids, princess Diana died years ago and there are still freaking writing about it.