Ed, the Mudcat forum is unique in that it is a custom written job for this site. Other boards do differ but if I was to classify this site, I would tend towards calling it an excellent example of a particular (I call them linear) design of boards rather than a unique format.

I'm not sure what you mean by "inter-organizational mudcat fourm" but if you mean what it takes to run it, aside from the code that Max has written, you need Cold Fusion which is something that not all web hosts provide. I think the supersearch uses Verity - not too sure on that but I think that would be an additional requirement. I guess Max could host for others...

If you mean a number of organisations sharing the same code and database, I'm not sure that would be a good plan. There are a few designs that allow multiple forums or categories within the main board, e.g. thinking Mudcat, they would support a BS and Music, etc. forums as seperate entities within the main board. These could perhaps be adapted to suit multiple organisations but, to the best of my knowledge, this (the Mudcat) design does not support that.

Jon