Web-based forums: (Some of these will require you to complete their user application forms:)

Electronic Accountant (Faulkner & Gray) -a whole set of forums. Reasonably active; they have half-dozen magazines generating hits onto their webpage, running Net.Thread: PCMag Byte
AICPA (American Institute of CPAs ) Forums Reasonably active. Bugs have been fixed. Uses the forums component within a whole integrated web/commerce/content solution from NetCreate
ASP Island Forums  (Running ASP pages, probably IIS server/Frontpage forums)
ASP News Forums  (outsourced at Paradise Web running on Powerforum Plus Pro, an incredibly great service provider that allows the poster to use HTML, edit his posts later etc.)
WebHarbor Forums (a leading ASP information website. running DCForum not much content yet at this time)
UK AccountingWeb http://forum.accountingweb.co.uk/~AccountingWEB (good content; slow moving; uses OriellyWebBoard platform.)
Accountants World http://www.accountantsworld.com (this is an NT-IIS-ASP board; active, good accounting discussion and VERY good website.)
AccountantingSoftWorld http://accountingsoftwarenews.com/discussion_toc.htm(board based on webbot software; active accounting software discussion and good website!)
Flashcommerce ASP discussion (custom perl web board, no threading, zillions of topic boards.  Hopelessly too slow; good "news" but little interaction. Big integrated marketing site with lots of click & cookie tracking) 
e-Company.com discussions http://www.ecompany.com/discussions/ASP board; slow. semiactive.
Financial Systems Forum (custom perl web board, for enterprise/high end - slow turnover)
WebTrust Alliance Discussion Area (WebCrossing (old v2) Hosted by PlanetCast; nice multi-message pages show the messages in sequence--very usable, but not threaded. Not much interaction here- slow turnover)
Michael Rappa's Managing the Digital Enterprise Forum another UltimateBBS; good! 
Online Management IOMA Discussion Groups (active. Good content, especially Accounts Payable issues. Running UltimateBBS.  Nice multiple message views.  Extreme moderators however.)
CPANet old CF Forums and new ASP Forums (good volume, good treeview threaded webboard 4)
BizProWeb's Accounting & Finance Forum (active! good stuff.  Standard UBB style webboard)
California Society of CPAs http://www.egroups.com/search?query=california+cpas  and http://www.egroups.com/group/ASKnow and http://www.egroups.com/group/RAMsession
Peachtree group http://www.egroups.com/group/peachtree (slow moving; specific pt questions)
Quickbooks groups http://www.egroups.com/search?query=quickbooks (lots of messages)
Pro2Net - new, empty set of forums.  Running ASP pages, probably IIS server/Frontpage forums.
ERP Fans' Baan User Discussion Forums (all of these are native cgi script,  threaded listings,
ERP Fan's Oracle User Discussion Forums    multiple topic categories, high performance, and
ERP Fan's PeopleSoft User Discussion Forums     have very interesting topics but mostly on
ERP Fan's SAP User Discussion Forums                    systems-related questions.)
ERP Fan's "everybody-else's ERP User Discussion Forums
Systems Union SunAccounts forum http://www.delphi.com/sunsystems/start (this is an NT-IIS-ASP based board; very low volume. maybe dead.)
The Red Herring Think Tank (WebCrossing platform.  all business topics.  thin volume but interesting.)
Excite's Unmoderated: alt.biz.accounting (actually ReMarq interface onto usenet.)
Excite's ever-changing assortment of Accounting Forum Links (ReMarq interface.)
Ernst & Young's Threaded Discussions (pitiful.  A good example of "open discussion" in a button-down culture.  It's been there so long their meta keyword is "big six" but still has only 50 messages.)
CFO Magazine Discussions (another heavy-duty webcrossing discussion--good reading!)
Accounting.com http://www.accounting.com (offline?  empty.)
Accounting Discussion http://www.accountingdiscussion@egroups.com
AccountingWeb http://www.accountingweb.com (custom/cgi, light traffic, tidbit messages)
Champion products forum (wwwboard, very simple message list; vendor support questions/answrs)
CPA Online (The Accountant's Ledger) (perl? custom, threaded single message list, very light traffic)
AEC Management Software (perl? custom, threaded, multiple messages per page; very pleasant; good.)
CIO Magazine discussion area (wellengaged.com hosted. active but content has gone "downmarket".)
Real Estate Accounting Professionals (wwwboard, active! RE software questions/answers)
Harry Pottol's Quickbooks Help Forum
Jack Burson's CPA website Forums
Dun & Bradstreets' Outsourcing Forum.
Professional Pricing Society Forums
Asia Pacific Management Forums
ISP-Invoicing
Malaysia Ecommerce Hub
OneList AccountingDiscussion
Visual Basic Forums
Harvard Business Review forums
Career Magazine  http://www.careermag.com/ubb-cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi
Byte forums deserve mention http://www.byte.com/nntp/joncon

TWiki Webs! http://twiki.sourceforge.net/
WikiWiki clones: Sourceforge and C2

e-commerce web discussion boards:
XML.com's XML discussions mainpage
XML.org's list archives includes ebXML list archives
eCommerceTimes http://www.ecommercetimes.com/wwwboard/wwwboard.shtml

Search these for "accounting" or other topics:
eGroups http://www.egroups.com
About.com http://www.about.com
SparkLists directory http://sparklist.net/

Mailing lists, too numerous to list them all

Forensic accounting at: http://www.elmengineering.com/fas

Resource for finding new Internet News Groups and Mailing lists: LISZT.
List of mailing list providers http://www.gweep.bc.ca/~edmonds/usenet/ml-providers.html
list of lists of lists http://search.ietf.org/html.charters/wg-dir.html
BizProWeb's list and group finder and list of Business Forums
Tapnet maintains several lists for accountants. But they seem to be silent.
Here is a search engine for academic mailing lists: KOVACS
A Net News - read these Message Archives!
Finance Net's huge Mailing Lists for accounting/finance
Loyola's list for accountants and CPAs will soon have web archives.
Hippo lists (costs$)  http://www.hippodirect.com/lists/account.html

Link Site - Tax Resources.com

Did I miss anything? Please email me if you find a busted link or want to add something.

Todd Boyle, CPA
Kirkland, WA
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