How about more than 12 months?

much, thanks.

Look better now?

Ack... still stretched out... I was going to add more breaks... but there aren't hosts rights set. John??

The oldies are timeless.

There is an ongoing effort to have everyone stating versions when asking, and answers are usually clarifying differences between versions whenever applicable.

So please, the lot.

Some text was put into PRE tags.

And yes, we can keep everything on the new system (up to 100 gig, I believe).

Sorry about that. I just added some line breaks to my quote, and it shrunk back down...

Maybe somebody can explain to me how THIS
thread got stretched out to about 1900pxW,
when there's only text in it?

So, posts on the new forums will not expire?

If so, that's a strong argument for the change! That'll almost make me forget my utter disappointment about no NNTP...

Main reason for expiration was that the forum database had a hard size limit that we hit early in the forum's existence.

>As Jacob points out, most of the forums only contain data going back about 12 months or so.

>But I have raised the point and we are going to look at bringing over everything from this current forum.
That may still end up being 12 months.

>Many of the oldies that are preserved were preserved for a specific reason back then (a few years ago)
that not longer exists, but there hasn't been an effective way to go back to them
to let them expire.

But this really begs the question. Why do posts expire so quickly. Most of the stuff discussed is still relevant even years later. This is especially true on the scripting forums.

I don't really buy the search argument. There should be an option to limit the search to specific time periods. That way the user can decide whether old posts are "pollution" or not.

Please don't let threads expire on the new forums!!! (at least not for at least ten years or so...)