The Case of the Missing Threads

[Gene Steinberg]

Moving 29,000 messages from one bulletin board system to another comes with glitches.

One is that a few hundred messages, posted from June 15 through 22, were duplicated. In removing the duplicates, a few threads went too. We don't know why; the publishers of the forum software suggested it was an artifact of the conversion process, and we're not about to do that all over again.

What this means is that such threads as the one about David Biedny appearing on Jeff Ritzmann's Podcast, and whether people look up in the sky were lost. Feel free to repost your messages on those subjects -- and the poll on the latter.

We're down to a small number of duplicates, and hopefully we'll avoid further problems.

 

[Ron Collins]

You are doing a good job Gene. Making that kind of switch is a big undertaking.

 

[Gene Steinberg]

You are doing a good job Gene. Making that kind of switch is a big undertaking.

I've had some help. And I did our tech forum yesterday. Might as well get the pain over fast.

 

[Aaron LeClair]

Moving 29,000 messages from one bulletin board system to another comes with glitches.

One is that a few hundred messages, posted from June 15 through 22, were duplicated. In removing the duplicates, a few threads went too. We don't know why; the publishers of the forum software suggested it was an artifact of the conversion process, and we're not about to do that all over again.

What this means is that such threads as the one about David Biedny appearing on Jeff Ritzmann's Podcast, and whether people look up in the sky were lost. Feel free to repost your messages on those subjects -- and the poll on the latter.

We're down to a small number of duplicates, and hopefully we'll avoid further problems.

Who nuked the David thread? I nuked two. The Whitley meditating, and looking up thread.

 

[Gene Steinberg]

Who nuked the David thread? I nuked two. The Whitley meditating, and looking up thread.

I did -- until I discovered a way to work around it. Oh well, this process is done, so everyone can just recreate these posts again.

 

[Aaron LeClair]

I did -- until I discovered a way to work around it. Oh well, this process is done, so everyone can just recreate these posts again.

So, I didn't screw up then?

 

[Gene Steinberg]

So, I didn't screw up then?

The process has a gotcha that we have to watch out for, such as deleting the first message in a thread. There is a warning, but it isn't easy to catch.