Storing data in ASP

<i><b>Originally posted by : David Balnaves (d.balnaves@scholar.nepean.uws.edu.au)</b></i><br />Hi,<br />I come from a unix perl background so as you can <br />imagine im a bit bwilded with ASP.<br /><br />What im looking for is some advice in what im<br />currently working on. In the process of learning<br />ASP I've got to build a few custom forums and<br />bulletin sections for a site im working on.<br /><br />Im planning on using segemented text files to<br />contain data and entrys for each section. Is this <br />a bad idea? I do have SQL facilities but they <br />are a bit $$$. Any feed back on this would be <br />great.