I'd like to host a message board for chatting with some of my online friends, but i thought it would be cool to manage the board on our own site(not using on of those free, link to it message boards) I imagine that John Vranesevich and his staff keep this board running. How would I go about creating a message board? is there someplace i could download some source code that i could easily implement a site? maybe a tutorial on how to do it?(i have the basic idea, but i might hit a few snags or something). I could try using a free board but it would be more fun to try making our own, also i dont think those boards give the admin as much control, we would need the ability to modify user/password, and banned user lists for deleting accounts, banning people etc. since we would only be for a small number of people, i think we could do it fairly easily.

thanx for the help