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Bourge: sack him or give him a go 11-Mar-2005 At 11:54:42 AM Mike

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On 11/03/2005 nmonteith wrote:
>rc.com has this - it is called community! - Currently admin/mods on this
>site cannot move posts/threads to other areas. We can only lock, edit and
>delete posts.

I've had a couple of goes at writing a move function, but it's a tricky one and I keep running out of time before I get it working. For you programmer types, the main problem is that message id is only unique within forum id, meaning to move a whole thread to another forum it needs to recurse through the replies tree and allocate new message ids. Anyway, when I get time it will happen.

Re hosting expense and server space: the number of posts is not really a problem. It's a MS SQL database on a big server with plenty of grunt. I doubt it would have trouble with millions of records. The thing that increases hosting expense is outgoing traffic. That is, the site pushing out megs of data to the internet. Mainly in the form of pics and video downloads, but also I guess general forum use as people move from topic to topic, particularly topics with uploaded pics. If it got out of hand I could cut it dramatically by making video downloads a members only function, and possibly hiding pics within forum posts until a link was clicked.

Anyway, carry on. Thanks Neil and other Admins for all your effort.