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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Guardian 2000: [QB] So I'm all like "alright, forum software's old, but maybe there's some helpful info online I can provide for that problem" . . . and I get to Googlin', and about six seconds later come across the Wikipedia page, which spake thus: [QUOTE]UBB.classic (formerly Ultimate Bulletin Board or UBB) was an Internet forum software package originally written by Ted O'Neill of Social Strata, Inc. in 1996. It was written in Perl and used a flat file database. The last version of the software was 6.7.3, and was maintained by Charles Capps until he left Social Strata (then known as Groupee) in early 2006.[/QUOTE]And then I'm all like "okay, nevermind then." I never realized the maestro was among us. And it's a flat file database! I much prefer that anyway. SQL gives me a headache. But, just to be over-simple and hopeful, I would presume a suitably talented person (i.e. someone who knew what the devil they were looking at if they opened it up in Notepad++ or something) might have a chance at pruning the last 12,000 registrations manually (i.e. everybody since 137th Gebirg (Member # 2692))? Or is the flat file in some magic chronological format with no timestamping? I know nothing of the database itself (and next to nothing about Perl), but if it features something like (registration)so-and-so(/registration)(approval)nein-verboten(/approval) or something, couldn't a regex be built, even if it came down to building an expression that included not killing all the names in the 18 pages of members? Feel free to pooh-pooh my poo-poo, here. But, if it's plausible, I might volunteer. Whatever the case, the absolute last thing I would ever want to see happen is for the information contained in all the many posts to just poof into dust. Somewhere there's a dork who's researching things and you just know they're gonna come across this site over and over, even if they can't participate. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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