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From the boastmachine site

boastMachine is an open source, state of the art publishing platform that makes your web publishing experience so fun and easy as never before! From the fully automated installation to advanced content management featuresto spam fighting, boastMachine provides you with all that you would ever need!

boastMachine 3.1 features
Easy publishing (blogs/articles/news/journals..)
Lightning Fast database processing
Unlimited BLOGS, Categories
Posting (Hidden/Frozen, Draft (future dated) ), Commenting (threaded comments)
bbCode, Smilies (smiley packs), Badword filter, HTML/Text posts, WYSIWYG Richtext editor
Monthly archives
Sending posts
Voting/Rating posts
File uploads , File manager, Image manager
User registration (with user levels)
User profiles (pic upload, bio..)
Article/Post search
Pingbacks / Trackbacks
Event display system
Theme packs, Themplate editor
Language packs
Link Manager
Timezone management
IP Blocking
SpamFilter (anti trackback/comment spam)
Image verification for comments
Built in referer logging
Multi purpose Calendar
XML feeds (RSS .92, RSS 2.0 (formatted) , ATOM .03)
Built in Shoutbox
Built in backup/restore management system
Printer friendly pages
Search engine friendly pages and URLs