Basic Questions

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I am researching online forums for my workplace. We do not have a dedicated person to IT or anything like that, so most of these questions are quite basic.


I've used vBulletin on a few public forums and like the things it offers and think it would be good for our business. That's if I can figure out how to set it up. I've done some research on companies that install it, host it and support it for a monthly fee. So the actual operation of the software once it is installed is my concern.

Here are a few questions I have about the system and some details about our business.

1) First off, how complicated is it to setup a basic forum and moderate it for a membership base? I am someone that has basic HTML and I.T. knowledge.

2) We are member organization with approximately 500 members. I am only looking at the software as a way to create a forum for our members to give and get feedback on topics amongst each other at this point. Would version 4.2 be the best option for me use?

3) As the moderator can you make the forum completely private and require members to login before viewing or posting / replying to threads?

4) From what I gathered you can create your own invitee list and send out invitations to create your user base. Can you limit it so that the only people that are able to register or login are people on the invite list? Can you create the invite list by importing say a excel file with name and email, or something like that?

Thanks
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