Can you recommend a free forum or message/bulletin board script?

It will all depend on what you have available server-side and where your skills lie. There are classic forum scripts that you have to pay for like UBB and vBulletin but the 'clones' available are just as powerful. Anyway have a look through these:

External

Technically these don't require any hosting or scrpting knowledge but fit in well here:

ezboard

PHP

phpBB

InvisionBoard - Super Fast, Well Coded, and Free!

Phorum - Simple, Free.

hotscripts.com/PHP/Scripts_and_Programs/Discussion_Boards/

General

Google directory

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