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[Bill Pfanstiel]

Were the forums from the old website lost in the transition to the new website? If so ,is there a way to retrieve them? it would be a shame to loose all that valuable information.

[CaptK]

Hi Bill -

First of all - Welcome!

Are you referring to the Yahoo Com-Pac Group information? If so, that information is still there, it is a completely separate entity from our CPYOA, a part of Yahoo.com. I guess as long as they are in business, that info will be there. There had been talk in the past of someone maybe writing a program which would pull that Archive information out as a "backup" to Yahoo's databases, because, as you said, it would be a shame to lose it for some reason beyond our control. That topic has not been mentioned in quite a while, though, so I am pretty sure nothing is being done about it at the present time.

One thing I would like to point out about how I am approaching the setup of the entire new CPYOA website: I am using all Free/Open Source Software to do it, so that no matter who is administering the website, the community that is the CPYOA will *always* be able to freely and easily access the data which they produced with their input. With this website, there will be no vendor lock-in, and no reliance on the good will or good fortunes of some large corporation, to be able to always have what we make here.

Additionally, the software I am using has been around for a number of years, and has relatively large user bases. This should ensure that it not only remains available, but will improve as well.

As far as I know, there was not a Forum in this style in the previous incarnations of the CPYOA website.

The static web-page information that was on the older website is still around. I have copies of it saved locally, as does Mike Quigley, the CPYOA's previous webmaster.

Once I finalize the setup of the image Gallery software, I will be able to start putting that information back up. It's all part of "The Plan" for the new way the whole website will run. I'll be posting more about "The Plan" when I can demonstrate it to ya'll fully.

More than you wanted to know, probably, but I hope at the same time it answered your questions.

If not, just let me know, and we'll work it out so that it does.

Fair winds ~

Kurt

[bsaulnier]

Hey Kurt,

Just want to say that I hope that this forum becomes more popular than the Yahoo Com-Pac Group list. This is a much better format for finding relevant information. Good luck.