This is a crude, compiled list of messagte boards and forums that you can use for your eFed. Updated 8/19/2005
With this free message board hosting service, you do not need to have Perl CGI access to host your own forum or discussion board. Just cut and paste the supplied HTML code into your website and you're done. You can customize your forum (change the title graphic, title, subtitle, background, text colour, etc), as well as configure it to send you a notification by email everytime someone posts to your board. It also allows you to ban people from a particular IP address from posting. Note that this is a general webmaster resource site where you can get a whole host of hosted scripts free of charge (not just message boards).
Sudden Launch provides free message boards with a subdomain (eg, yourname.suddenlaunch.com), unlimited boards, posts and threads, etc.
InvisionFree is an ad-supported forum host that provides limited customization of the board's features (you can change the colours and skin of your board).
iboardplus is a free remote message board that supports notification of instant messages, forum statistics, UBB code in posts, customizable profanity filters, various moderation features like banning a member, etc, the ability to allow or disallow guest posts, etc. The board is ad-supported.
ProBoards gives your board its own subdomain name (yourname.proboards.com). It is customizable, supports various administrative and moderation options (allow or disallow guest posts, create member groups, ban members via IP or email address, email registered users, create private boards, etc), provides notification of instant messages, statistics, etc.
This is a free hosted BBS system (ad-supported). It has public and private forums, chat rooms, personal email box for members, access via a web browser or a newsreader, customization of the forum, either a threaded forum or a linear forum, unlimited participants and messages, moderated forums, usage statistics, searching, sorting of messages, etc.
You get an unlimited amount of forums, ability to ban users, have multiple moderators, customise the page appearance, search the board, have email notification when a topic receives a reply, etc. You can set different security levels for your Message Boards as well (administrators only, moderators only, anyone).
Above information gathered from: http://www.thefreecountry.com/scripthosting/messageboards.shtml