Oh and if anyone did want to try Ebbie's suggestion and couldn't run their own system, I found this a couple of weeks ago and suggested it to someone else who was running a folk related board that was cluttered with adverts.

I don't know how he does it but he appears to be hosting 100 plus boards on his own equipment and relies on donations to keep running. There is no charge and no ads and phpbb is a pretty good system.

There has been a bit of downtime lately as a new server has been installed but at the moment, I would assume other than that, he is reliable.