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[Glaucus]

why does it even need to be 120 days old?... I mean seriousely.. I'd think 30 days of archive is enough....or even 7 days... who needs the giant archive... I doubt anyone here really looks back that far.

Well I can think of one great reason: For all those "how to" and "my Amiga is broken" questions that seem to come up again and again.  People could search the archives for answers to common questions instead of them being answered over and over again.  Same goes for developer information.  Not all the discussions here are pointless and meaningless!  

  - Mike

[Glaucus]

I understand that some topics are important, butthe problem is, if we preserve those, they're marked as "sticky" topics and moved to the top of the sticky list. I don't know how well it would work to have five pages of sticky topics, some of which will be very old.

How about creating an "Archives" forum that contains ONLY stickies.  In otherwords no one could post into the archives, but of course can browse the sticky (or archived) posts.

Threads could also be compressed into .lha or .zip formats and stored in a downloads section.  OR you could just throw them onto Aminet and let them be someone else's problem.  ;-)

  - Mike

[Glaucus]

vortexau wrote:
Wayne said:

Some conversations will and do need to be preserved for prosperity. We're looking at possibilities.

Wow! So some time in the future there may be CDs available named -
"AmigaOrg Troll-fests, Flame-wars, and other tales of Digital Angst vol-1,2,3"?

:-D

Not only that, we could hand out awards to exceptional posts. Some of the categories could include: "Flame Bait Of The Year", "Most Moderated User", "Most Offensive Post", "Most Humorous Post", "Most Badly Spelled Post", "Most Grammatically Incorrect Post" and of course "Most Intelligent and Thoughtful Post" (which I'm sure I'm bound to win hands down! ;-) ).

:-D

  - Mike