Re: archives » Dr. Bob

Posted by Larry Hoover on September 7, 2004, at 8:27:19

In reply to Re: archives, posted by Dr. Bob on September 7, 2004, at 1:50:03

> > The Psycho-board archived (again) when it contains fewer posts than does the Social board. Same with Alternative; it archived when there were still only a relatively small number of posts. You have been asked if you could archive Social, to at least obscure the profanity in those subject lines, but there they lie, amidst the largest group of posts of any I have just described.
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> > Why will you not archive the Social board?
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> > Lar
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> The archiving of boards is automatic. But they don't all archive at the same size, if that were the case, the less active ones would hardly ever turn over, which I think inhibits posting.
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> Social is more active, so it archives at a larger size. See below for more regarding the exact timing:
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> http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/admin/20040902/msgs/387445.html
Thank you for the explanation. Information alone is often the solution to raised emotion. It is easy to imagine premises which do not even have a bearing on the subject matter.
> > From a pragmatic standpoint, you probably would prefer to conserve database space. So wouldn't it be pragmatic, and doing what works, in the future to delete posts with subject headers that are blatantly offensive?
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> > Dinah
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> Another aspect of this is that the archives also introduce people to the group. And posts like that are one aspect of what it's like here. So I think the introduction is more accurate this way.
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> Conserving space is also an issue, but space keeps getting cheaper... :-)
I don't have a problem with archives per se. And I sure find them useful when google won't find me a thread that I know is there. I keep forgetting to show you examples of that. It happens.....a lot, and I don't know why.

> > In this instance, the archive interval is already at seventeen days.
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> > Lar
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> 9/6/04 - 8/20/04 = 17 days, but 8/20/04 was the last *previous* archive, which excluded the current archive, which was 8/30/04.
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> Bob
Yes, my brain failure yesterday left me vulnerable to faulty extrapolation, but of course, nobody knew what the archive date would yet be, non?
Thanks for the explanations. Details matter.
Lar

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