There was a script request for comment systems. (I use MT, and GM before that, both of which have comment systems built in) but if you're on blogger – you may be interested and in need of a comment service. A quick google search drummed these up:
fizbox
YACCS (which seems to be the popular one)
Anyone got anymore? or comment scripts that run on your own server?
1 | Bill
February 16th, 2003 at 7:57 pm
There a number of PHP commenting systems out there – DotComments seems to be a very popular one, and there's another that is in use at LittleYellowDifferent.com.
DotComments can be found here
Other one can be found here
2 | kathi
February 16th, 2003 at 8:55 pm
I've successfully used Phil Ringnalda's remotedotcomments variation on the dotcomments PHP script for a friend's Blogger/BlogSpot blog.
A couple of CGI scripts (no personal experience with these):
cgiComments
SnorComments2
4 | Al-Muhajabah
February 17th, 2003 at 3:45 am
I'm not sure if YACCS is accepting new accounts and people I know have also had trouble getting new HaloScan accounts.
Another one I have seen is backBlog
5 | Crystal
February 17th, 2003 at 5:27 am
<a href="http://www.selfassembled.net/scripts/" target="_blank">PHP based comments</a>
6 | yy
February 17th, 2003 at 6:57 am
my friend has a blogspot blog and I would like to be able to run a comment system for her, without her moving her site on to my server.
anyone know if this is possible?
7 | kathi
February 17th, 2003 at 8:09 am
For yy: that is how I am using remote dotcomments (see my 1st comment) for my friend's BlogSpot blog… only comments are on my server, blog is on BlogSpot.
8 | Phil Ringnalda
February 17th, 2003 at 2:05 pm
YACCS – probably never again taking new signups.
HaloScan – no signups since mid-December, though not yet to the "never again" stage.
backBlog and SquawkBox.tv are both interesting if you are likely to be willing to cough up some cash for the paid versions (SquawkBox limits comments for free users to 255 characters, so if you'll never pay you probably shouldn't bother).
For hosting comments for someone else, it mostly depends on what language you are comfortable with, and how many people you might host. remotedotcomments is fine for one or a very few, as long as they are all using Blogger (so they'll have unique item id numbers), but for more than just a couple I'd probably go with something intended for multiple users. For PHP there's BlogBack PHP, which is roughly the original version of BlogBack (the first remotely-hosted comment system that didn't end up going down in flames), for Perl snorComments2 (linked above) works quite well once you figure it out (I think that's Perl's official motto, isn't it?), and for ASP you should just shoot yourself now, er, I mean there's some listed in my Blogger FAQ comment entry, which is more up-to-date than the posting date would imply.
9 | bhw
February 17th, 2003 at 3:33 pm
When I used Blogger, I found Snor Comments, and it worked fine. I think it was a cgi.
10 | Al-Muhajabah
February 17th, 2003 at 11:27 pm
Most Blogger/BlogSpot people I know have gone with Enetation; a couple are going with backBlog
11 | Mike
February 19th, 2003 at 10:37 am
Interesting feedback re SquawkBox. I'm always interested to hear peoples' views on the service.
Following Phil's posting we've revised our unpaid setup so that SquawkBox.tv offers unlimited comment lengths for unpaid accounts, too! The features list has also been updated and all existing Basic accounts upgraded accordingly at 2pm GMT 19 Feb 03.
Thanks for the constructive criticism!
12 | Mike_W
December 15th, 2003 at 4:49 am
I was using CommentThis (http://commentthis.com/) on Blogspot, but it slowed the page load down too much – that why I ended up here looking for something to run on my own server:(
13 | SpygirL
February 9th, 2004 at 10:05 pm
bhw mentioned SnorComment. I just installed it and LOVE it. I have YACC and it's great but they delete your comment every 3 months 
With SnorComment I put it on my friend's webspace with CGI (mine doesn't have CGI) and make sure my comments are accessible anytime I want to 
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