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It's probably been asked before, but is there honestly any reason to store 270 back pages of threads - I mean, glance back to check up on something a few pages back, yes, but who the Hell wants to read a thread that goes back to August, 2004?! May I venture a suggestion to the moderator: wipe everything off the board over 100 pages.

Cast my vote to leave it the way it is.

It's history and nostalgia.

I like it the way it is

woppy71;448172 wrote: It's history and nostalgia.

I like it the way it is


outvoted 2:1 so far. Hmmm... interesting. Is there a poll thread on FG? How many people actually glance back through the pages?:yh_eyebro :yh_eyebro

weinbeck;448179 wrote: outvoted 2:1 so far. Hmmm... interesting. Is there a poll thread on FG? How many people actually glance back through the pages?:yh_eyebro :yh_eyebro


Every once in a while I do... but I think more importantly, it's really

fun to see a newbie come along and bump something.



Or, in some cases, you remember something from far back to use as

a reference, etc.

valerie;448195 wrote:

Or, in some cases, you remember something from far back to use as

a reference, etc.


I do this occasionally too.

or if your a newbie and you dont want to bore the pants of every one you could go back and check that your thread your thinking of posting has not been done before





i said could i cant be bothered i bore every one any way but you could if you wanted to:o

weinbeck;448161 wrote: May I venture a suggestion to the moderator: wipe everything off the board over 100 pages.


"Moderator"?

valerie;448166 wrote: Cast my vote to leave it the way it is.


*Mee Too!*

jimbo;448235 wrote: or if your a newbie and you dont want to bore the pants of every one you could go back and check that your thread your thinking of posting has not been done before


99.9% of it has all been done before. If one wanted to check that a posting hasn't been done before, there are on-line resources that may be examined.

Google, for instance, as well as far less public resources, keep articles "for

ever". Even edited FG articles may be found "out there" from before the edits

were applied!

It gets a bit boring saying "look at (whicheverarchive) your post has been

done before".

Gee..where would the place be if we could not ressurect the refrigerate butter and eggs threads every once in a while??

good grief, if anyone edited pages out of bothwell's pub, the whole damn forum would become victim of a heinous riot. starting with me.

The suggestion of trimming the database is akin to prescribing a lobotomy. In what way does the backlist impinge on users? Does it lead to inefficiency on the server? Does it intrude on visitors or posters? I think not. It's a resource as it stands, and the back messages undoubtedly bring new people in through the search engines. Trimming back would be folly.

I like it as it is too.

Sometimes going back through old threads allows me a chance to get to "know" a member better, see opinions I hadn't before. Plus it's fun. And I think it's good to bump topics now and then for newer people to chime in on.