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Willeke:
We are missing some posts.
Are the old back up files still available?
I know we have already losts some posts that should have been kept forever. Maybe we can search trough all the old posts and copy them for the future, maybe into a 'read only' part of the site.

Many of the questions newcommers ask or want to ask have been answered before. If the old posts are still around, they can search or we can search for them, and will be able to help the people much faster.

Willeke

Webmistress:

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When from?


--- Quote ---Are the old back up files still available?

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Only as far back as last week (Friday, I think).


--- Quote ---I know we have already losts some posts that should have been kept forever. Maybe we can search trough all the old posts and copy them for the future, maybe into a 'read only' part of the site.

Many of the questions newcommers ask or want to ask have been answered before. If the old posts are still around, they can search or we can search for them, and will be able to help the people much faster.

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I seem to remember that at least one of the forum regulars was archiving useful old posts. Maybe a call for help on the Chit Chat board would turn up some useful material?

Mel

Willeke:
With missing I meant to say that we new it had been posted and is no longer available and people are asking the same question again, rather than has disappeared without reason.
So this is a cry to have a long term 'archive' for all posts.

The information from the 'missed' post was still owned by the origional poster and asking around did get it on the forum again (as far as I undestand it is the same info.) But many posts are spur of the moment texts that get irretrivable lost when their 200 days are over.

Would it be posible to (automaticly) transfer those posts to a closed, or read only, archive?

Willeke

knudeNoggin:
There once was said to be some kind of time limit on the posts.
What is that?

Maybe the Forum community can take period review of the
posts-to-become-lost and decide which to save, and then
assign the task of editor to a volunteer who would make one
big (not always so large, actually) file of the post series, which
might include judicious purging of extraneous matter.
THEN there needs to be a place where such an edited record
can be kept for reference.

*knudeNoggin*

Willeke:
I agree, and I do volunteer as one the editors.

Willeke

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