Just as an aside to all of this -- I'd like to point out something that Bill Streep touched on in the other threads: the hosting issue.

Hosting is cheap, when you're running a small static webpage with very little changing content.... a web forum is very far from that. Seeing as hosting is my bread-and-butter, I know a thing or two about hosting larger-scale databases. While we may not be to the size of ReefCentral here, we get well in excess of 100+ posts a day, all containing the necessary metadata that has to be linked into all the running components of the webpage. On top of that, there's at least 3 times as many people browsing anonymously at any given time, as there are logged in.... thats a lot of data moved. While the fees aren't going to be in the thousands of dollars per month (as would be expected at, say, ReefCentral) -- the usage here is not zero, and the feasibility of running as active a forum as this is off a home residential cable modem is not high.

Just a little perspective for what the costs of hosting a large and active domain is...

-Justin