A friend has asked me to put together a simple message board for them. np, right? I figure what I'll do is have an index page, which is made of nested links to root messages and their replies (and replies to replies etc.), and I'll keep all the actual messages in their own HTML files. No DB, it will run on almost any version of perl - simple. Then, for giggles, I looked at the source for MSA's message board. It does the exact same thing basically. Now, of course, it is lacking any signs of warnings, strict or taint checking - but the concept is the same. So many times now in the CB and throughout many nodes the work of MSA has been dismissed as absolute evil. Now, seeing it does almost exactly waht I was planning on, I find myself doubting my ideas on how to do this.

Am I nuts? Is there a much better way I'm missing? Am I way too paranoid? How would any of you do it? 

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