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[DrO]

Originally Posted by SugarD-x

@DrO: Legal issues aside, I mean just as a read-only archive for future reference, since obviously some things that we would want to keep could potentially be lost. All this would do is provide a place where old, (outdated or otherwise), information could be seen, if need be. A notation could even be added at the top of it, stating that the information is not maintained, and is only available as a reference to old posts.

As for the legal issues, assuming AOL drops ownership of Winamp completely with its shutdown, it might not be a problem. It may require some authorization, though, as was mentioned. This is just an idea, however. I'm not saying it should replace the new, fresh forum that you have already set up. Even with an archive like what I'm suggesting, I would still recommend using the new one as the place for continued conversations.

it's not that simple as everyone is forgetting about users rights against what they've posted which is why it's basically a no-no (as i know i've never given permission for my stuff to be scraped but there's bugger all i can do about it now which has pissed me off).

and there's already a tonne of hidden and archived sub-forums on here that no one cares about or finds relevant which is how most of the data on here that can be accessed is also. so yes i can see why people want to archive and save everything but when most of it is duplicates or just crap that isn't needed, it's just a waste of time and resources to keep dealing with it.

plus as i've already mentioned, everything has been scraped to death so despite the issues relating to that side of things, the posts are still going to be accessible by means. but you cannot just dump the format of one forum into another without having to convert it or having to do a lot of processing of things. as i suspect the chances of a VBB export are slim to none and having been subject to 2 aged versions of it, i don't want to have to have anything to do with a VBB setup (but that's my opinion on things).

if information is still relevant then just that can be done as new posts / wiki items / etc and keeping things relevant as there's then going to be people debating what is or isn't relevant and my own view is anything relating to / applicable to the 5.66x release and not having to deal with anything earlier is all that is needed (but i'm sure that'll be viewed as being wrong).