Master Message Board	v1.4.1
Tuesday, November 28, 2000

Installation:

	To install the Master Message Board unzip the contents of mmb.zip into a temporary directory.
	Then upload those files, excluding the readme, to your web server.  Be sure to upload all the files 
	in ascii mode, NOT binary mode.  Master.cgi must be placed in a directory that execute files of the
	cgi extension.  Also the files: users.dat, settings.dat, boards.dat, and banlist.dat must all be
	placed in the same directory as master.cgi.
	
	Once in the directory make sure that the permissions on Master.cgi are set to 'chmod 755 master.cgi'. 
	Also the permissions on the dat files should be set to 'chmod 600 "file"' so that they can not be
	accessed from the outside.  They should already	have all the permissions set, but just make sure.  
	
	Then check and make sure the first line of master.cgi (#!/usr/local/bin/perl) is the correction location 
	of Perl 5 on your server.  If it is a Windows Server just ignore the first line.  Also change the 2nd
	line in master.cgi that says $ScriptLocation = "";, between the quotes put the address of the page that
	will be using the board (eg. $ScriptLocation = "http://www.xmission.com/~sna").

	If you then access master.cgi from a browser, it should come up with the "Logging on for the first time?"
	page.  Follow those directions on that page and then your browser should be operatable.  Be sure not to
	edit any of the dat files manually, as that will probably cause undiserable operation.

	Note: Sense the posts and users are stored as flat-file database text files, this board may be slower
	in sites that have very heavy posting and traffic.

	The Net Library:  If you do not have this library installed on your server, you must do it to have the
	mail sending feature work.  If you do not care for the mail verification, go into the master.cgi file and
	delete the line "use Net::SMTP;		# for send mail", then make sure that you have it disabled under
	Misc. Options.

Bugs:
	
	If you find any bugs please e-mail them to me at: Sna@Xmission.com.

About:

	The Master Message Board was made by Rich Snapp, Sna@Xmission.com, and is distributed as
	freeware.  It may distributed freely 'as is'.  You may also edit the source code to my script for
	personal use, but do not distribute edited copies. 

	New to v1.4.1
		-Fixed Security bug
		-Added errors messages for problems accessing files

	New to v1.4
		-Added Create User link at the top of view only boards
		-Added name at top of each board
		-Fixed bug with Refering addresses being converted to Hex
		-Script location now manually typed to fix bugs with irregular addresses

	New to v1.3.2
		-Fixed IP/E-mail banning bug	

	New to v1.3.1
		-Fixed various bugs	

	New to v1.3
		-Added Multiple Message Board Support
		-Added Password Encryption
		-Fixed various bugs
	
	New to v1.2
		- Added more visual administrator options
		- Changed some of the interface
		- Fixed various bugs

	New to v1.1
		- Added IP logging
		- Added IP Address, and E-Mail address banning
		- Fixed various bugs