I like the frames Nick, much faster.

[IMHO]
I would also like to say that it also now looks alot more like a newsgroup, which in my mind is what it should be. I never really understood the purpose of trying to make everything run over HTTP. Newsgroups have been around for a LONG time, they are fast, efficient and in my opion the best format to hold group discussions. If you wanted to reduce your bandwith, then switch to NNTP. Almost every web-browser has a news client built in, so there is no real problem for the users.
There would be two ways to do this:
1) Host a news server on your server machine. This would mean that you keep control of the newsgroup, but people must contact your server directly to access it. This would use bandwith, but not as much as the current solution.
2) If you have enough subscribers (which I am sure you do), then you can apply for a TOP level news designation. There is already rec.boats.kayak, so you could have rec.boats.kayak.guillimot, or rec.boats.kayak.strip .
This would mean that this newsgroup would be replicated all over the world (for free) to all current running news servers. Users would not have to log onto your server, just there local news server, and you would not have to host a news server. Thus your bandwith usage would be only that produced by the traffic through your Guillimot site. All users would also have increaded speed since they would be hitting a news server that was close to them and not the other side of the world. You would however lose the "control" that you currently have over the BBS.
[/IMHO]

I think your site is great, I have bought your book, and plans, and am about to build my first bost. Please do not think this is a critism (not sure how to spell that) of you or your site, it is just my frustration at the "internet" / "computing" community at consistantly re-inventing the wheel.

Ian