Sites such as egroups, topica, Lycos Clubs, and Yahoo Clubs offer web-based discussion group facilities along with other services such as email lists, file storage, chat, and scheduling. You need to register as a member to avail of the services fully, particularly discussion group creation. You can create more than one web forum through these sites. Discussion groups created through these sites provide a self-contained web site or groups of pages for various facilities with limited customisation of pages.