Re: Come on over to "Moderated By An Amateur"!

On May 19, 5:22 pm, "Martin R. Howell"
<martinhow...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[...]
in them:" You would have known that until last week there were nearly
700 posts/replies in the forum and that all of those now empty areas
were quite full. I deleted all topics a few days back that had drawn no
response for more than 30 days. I did this because it was getting very
cluttered in the forum and there was no way to remove this clutter and
archive it.

Are your running your forum off a floppy disk or something? 750GB
disks
are presently a consumer commodity item for just over US$100.

A forum without archives is useless as others have also brought to
your
attention in this thread. And picking and choosing, as you've
admitted,
whose postings to save and whose to trash is a good reason for
everyone
to abandon your futile forum.

As just a for-example, the following archived posting I made almost
20 years ago to Usenet is still online and available even though noone
has responded to it in almost 20 years (not your absurd 30 days):

<http://groups.google.co.jp/group/sci.math/msg/d6c891302914fd84?
dmode=source&hl=ja>

.

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