@Trinity River Bottoms Boomer posted:...What about the older posts that have outlived their usefullness?
@gunrunnerjohn posted:...I don't see the point in going back to old posts and doing anything with them. First off, there's good information in many old posts....
GunrunnerJohn has it right. You never know when an old post may hold the answer to a new question.
The "gnashing of teeth" that gunrunnerjohn mentions above had to do with automatic pruning of posts. Years ago we had the forum software set to automatically delete threads that had not had a reply within a certain amount of time. However, we ended up losing a very long and valuable thread about the Natty Boh reefer in that process. Several people had contributed mightily to that project, and they were very angry and disappointed that the thread was lost. And I don't blame them. I was able to get most of it back in PDF format for the original author by getting Hoopla/Crowdstack Tech Support involved, but the thread itself was lost forever.
Not that many years ago there was a practical limit on the amount of disc space we could use, and it was expensive. But things have changed as the march of technological progress continues. Disc space is cheaper these days. All the servers are now running 64-bit operating systems, and with multi-TERABYTE hard drives now common, there's no practical limit to the amount of disc storage this forum can use. Saving a few gigs of disc space is just not worth the potential problems deleting old posts could cause.
