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i doubt his site was suspended for any legal reasons, probably lack of payment maybe? he was within his bounds with IPB (having gained their permission QUITE awhile ago), and a hack that *other* users post is their own property & legal problem, not koudanshi's
anyways, i'm sticking with the phpbb port, since newbb is too limited, newbb2 is too broken (and still has limitations). so far, i've gotten phpbb using XOOPS groups system, lol, so i'm going to continue using the module and maybe start a dev.xoops project for it, with all modifications, etc. i'm going to apply the 2.0.9+ fixes from phpbb, and then branch my modified version away, since there's so many changes already.
i'd also like to find a way to make phpbb work without XOOPS modifications, altho the login hack is NICE.