In Reply to: Re: Rod, is there a way to pull the posts into an archive here? posted by Simon Templar on October 24, 2004 at 17:36:00:
The issue from a technical viewpoint is the message numbers. To merge the data, I'd have to pull in ASOG and then renumber all the OTL messages to start at something greater. Since it's small now, that's doable and not terribly hard to do.To avoid that issue, it's simpler to just suck in ASOG as a sub-group, e.g. OTL --> ASOG. We coould then either archive all of ASOG or leave it active as a sub-group of OTL like Planar is a sub-group of Speakers. The only problem with keeping it separate is searching would require searching two different forums. However, that problem will go away next year when we release the new search code and forum software that we've been doing. In the new code stream, forums are related to parents and can be related to multiple parents. Search will then support from any parent down it's children. In other words, a search of forums under Speakers would search Speakers, Hi-Eff, Planar etc.
Technical details aside, I can do it either way, separate or combined and active or archived. Whatever folks want is fine, we just need a concensus.
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Follow Ups
- Re: Rod, is there a way to pull the posts into an archive here? - Rod M 18:20:08 10/24/04 (1)
- Merge the ASOG posts into AA OTL seemlessly, not as a sub-forum... - Rushton 18:43:32 10/24/04 (0)