Has there been any more thought, or has it been ruled impossible or not feasible to rescue and transplant the WTB archives? There is a wealth of info that would be great to have at the new place. It would save countless hours of reinventing the wheel, and provide the transients a wealth of info immediately at Abby's. (It sure seems to me that if such a high % of visitors are not regulars or members, they must be relying on the search function to find their info without bothering to register and post a question to the forum. Having the archive moved to Abby's sure would seem to be a quick way to establish the info base quickly.)
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Re: WTB archives Reply #11 Jan 8, 2005 1:32 pm
Having a searchable, view only version of the archives is just fine. However, I really don't have time to go back through years and years of threads and posts in order to weed out what would be considered irrelivant information. I enjoy donating my time to moderate the forums but I try to have a life too.
I say just leave it all in there and let it be. This forum, Abby's, will be growing rapidly once it starts up and will be making it's own history in no time. Granted, we need the archives from WTB but, I see no reason to put a ton of work and time into cleaning them up.
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