28-03-2002 01:13									#1
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I was doing a search the other day and i realized that i can't find any of my posts beyond december of last year. Why is that?

	28-03-2002 01:34									#2
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I think that has to do with the GameStats problems, the moving to a Greek server etc. The result was that the archives were "lost", and they probably won't be coming back.

	28-03-2002 02:02									#3
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DanQ answered this question in an earlier thread today...

quote: The simple fact of the matter is that any threads that are not in the forums, either in 'active' or 'archived' modes, for all intensive purposes no longer exist (excluding the possibility that someone might have saved a thread or two to their HDs or an external storage device). The reasons for this is a combination of, amongst others, a) switch from Ultimate Bulletin Board (UBB) to vBulletin (vB) in May, 1999 and b) our sudden server move in January from GameStats to our now extended temporary host in Greece. If someone has a copy of the thread, you could always make a request for it (in the Off-Topic forum) and see what kind of response you get. Whether or not you are successful in such an attempt, they will not be returning in any shape or form to our forum database.

	28-03-2002 05:48									#4
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igh..i liked your old avatar better
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if they no longer exist then why doesn't that decrease your post count?

	28-03-2002 07:04									#5
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quote: Originally posted by devilmunchkin if they no longer exist then why doesn't that decrease your post count?

Because the postcount is simply a number associated with your login that increases everytime you post (on topic). It isn't a number directly based on the total number of your (on topic) posts in the database.
The only thing that can reduce your postcount is a PCR.

	28-03-2002 08:31									#6
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so i can't even look up my first post ever (a thread with 0 posts )

MING



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	28-03-2002 21:27									#7
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I think VBBoard was added in 2001, not 1999... I seem to remember

	29-03-2002 00:28									#8
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Ming I liked your old avatar better too. The original flash gordon series beats anything made later!

	03-04-2002 00:09									#9
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Wait a minute, Dan said the word archived! Where are the archives then? I want to look at some of my old threads that ended up there.

	03-04-2002 10:09									#10
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quote: Originally posted by DinoDoc Wait a minute, Dan said the word archived! Where are the archives then? I want to look at some of my old threads that ended up there.

The word "archived" was reference to individual thread(s) that may have been saved to HD.

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Dan; Apolyton CS

<FONT SIZE=1>Sorry, DD -- was thinking of something else</FONT>

	03-04-2002 11:15									#11
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quote: Originally posted by DanQ The "archives", as you refer to it DinoD<b>o</b>c, that are available are already online.

Where? I'm sorry. I just don't see them on the forum front page.