In less than three hours after the forum was launched at around midday AEST, more than 500 messages had been posted on the discussion forum site.
ABC network editor Stephen Rapley told ZDNet Australia the national broadcaster had been forced to assemble a three-person censorship panel dedicated to removing -vilification and obscenity" from the site.
No figures were available, but Rapley said the censorship team had been forced to remove a significant proportion of messages.
-There are high passions," he said of content submitted to the online discussion group.
Customers of internet service provider AOL Australia took to creating their own message boards in droves, according to spokeswoman Jennifer Parker.
-They've created hundreds, literally hundreds (of message boards) and posted thousands of messages to them," Parker said.
She said it was impossible to determine how many message boards were currently hosted on the site.
-They're changing by the minute and constantly growing," she said.
The message boards, accessible to AOL members only, went unmonitored and AOL would only intervene if notified of inappropriate messages by other participants, Parker said.
-Message boards are an opportunity for people to have their say," she said, adding that the majority of today's messages have been -comments about the tragedy" and Australians sending their thoughts to those in the US.
Global message boards hosted by rival Yahoo had also been hit by a surge in traffic since the early hours of the morning, according to a spokesperson for the company's Australian operation.
The US-headquartered ISP had been forced to haul in extra servers to cope with the high level of demand following the tragedy, the spokesperson said.
The ISP's Australian operation also hauled in extra servers after receiving warning from the US of surging Web traffic levels, they said.
-A huge amount of people are using the message boards for communications services such as instant messaging," the spokesperson said.
In the US, Yahoo reported one message board received a staggering 25,000 individual messages.
Traffic on the Internet company's US site - including site visitors logged onto online video and audio footage - surged to 40 times usual traffic levels in the hour directly after the tragedy occurred, Yahoo said.
The ABC is currently developing a separate -guest book" Web site to publish condolences related to the attack.








Please read this if you care about the future of this country.....
Channel 7 ,9 and 10 network stations began to use the colors red white and blue in all adds soap operas and on the clothing of its reporters...
This began 1 year before the sep 11th attacks.
Several groups told the public that a major attack was going to happen .
The reason they knew was because this is part of the new world order agenda to take away all freedom. Terrorism is the tool to make the public give up its freedom.
Soap opera scripts wer loade3d with comments such as "We must give up our constitutional rights ect ect"
These events will be multiplied until laws are passed that take away all resistance.
These scenes are used strongly with the colors red white and blue.
The media.. As all major media outlets are controlled and being used to condition the public on issues such as there are no cures for a.i.d.s...a big fat lie
The public will see journalists such as Marie Louise Theile and Jeff Mullins wearing a combination of these colors.
Scenes with doctors, medicine and hospitals.
The drug industry is a trillion dollar business. As many people have found out about Ozone therapy and the book"The cause and cure of h.i.v. and a.i.d.s. the media as well as attacking its inventor "Basil Waigright" which "A Current Affair "did.
Mike Munroe is responsible for the deaths of all aids sufferers in Australia as this show was told by its network bosses quote"TO HANG WAIGNRIGHT OUT TO DRY"
. The police..watch water rats..stingers...every wall and all clothing is red white and blue.
The reason because of the future round up of all that do not go along with the new world order.
Politicians..you can see the red white and blue on the suits and ties ect.
Watch "NEIGHBORS" this is the funniest red white and blue use of all in 90% of scenes
ALL WE NEED IS AN INDEPENDENT INQUIRY AND THIS WILL HELP TO FIND THE REAL PEOPLE BEHIND
SEP11th...