Old Acheron Message Topics

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Napalm on Tuesday, January 12, 1999 - 09:26 am:

Heya.. Just wondering what you think should be done about these threads that are either no longer current (old pack talk) or just completely dead? Archive them in a folder of Past Threads or something? Cause the lists are just gonna get longer and longer with dead or abandoned topics!


By Leonardo.iCE on Tuesday, January 12, 1999 - 09:32 am:

yeah, good idea. Achive them up, make a disscusion-archive section, and kill 'em.


By Dangermouse on Tuesday, January 12, 1999 - 01:30 pm:

Okay, okay :) I guess I can do that, but I'll have to work out some procedure for doing it. ie. Every month or two months or something..


By Cthulu of Mistigris on Sunday, January 17, 1999 - 03:04 pm:

This mirrors a lot of things I've said in other bases (that'll teach me to start from the bottom and work my way up...)

As for a procedure, I move:

in matters which are strictly topical (a current-run movie, a recently-released artpack) get rid of them after a month of inactivity.

For other topics eliminate thme after two months of inactivity.

Have a base announcing which bases will be toasted "within the next (x) weeks" unless they get more activity. That may prompt people to revisit old discussions and pick them up again.

This is very similar to the kind of protocol Midnight Sorrow follows when changing CyberCrime network echomail message bases. And it works. 8)


By Dangermouse on Sunday, January 17, 1999 - 03:30 pm:

Yeah, that sounds like a fair system to me.


By Dangermouse on Sunday, January 17, 1999 - 11:36 pm:

You'll be happy to know that the archive is now up, and all of the december messages have been deleted.


By Cthulu of Mistigris on Monday, January 18, 1999 - 01:32 am:

Yay! Now: how do I access that archive? There were a couple threads I wanted to revive which I hadn't gotten to yet (a couple of those which I had written massive intros for) which you packed...


By Dangermouse on Monday, January 18, 1999 - 02:18 am:

Oh well ;) In future however I will be letting people know in advance which threads will be being deleted, so SORRY!


By Cthulu of Mistigris on Monday, January 18, 1999 - 01:49 pm:

Dear Dangermouse - I know that my output is hard to keep up with, and you have been a dear in complying with some of my requests, but could you please answer questions I pose when you respond to my posts?

_HOW DO I ACCESS_ the archive?

If you're going to respond at all, I'd consider it only polite to deal with the questions there. If you're not going to answer them, it looks like you don't want to tell me (or is it that they're not available yet? That's still a kind of answer...)


By Dangermouse on Monday, January 18, 1999 - 05:55 pm:

Haha.. Sorry dude, I didn't see that.. Try the 'archive' link on the sidebar.


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