Depends upon whether you want them in your message center or not. If you've read all the messages, they'll never pop up in read new.
Hell, I don't know. If I had wanted schooling, I'da gone to school.
Jayne ,'Ariel'
Bureaucracy 1: Like Kafka, Only Funnier
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
DXMachina - Oct 27, 2002 9:56:47 am PST #632 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Nilly - Oct 27, 2002 9:59:07 am PST #633 of 10001
Swouncing
So The Archives are only for non-Phoenix threads (unlike those of WX)?
[Edit: I mean, if I understand it correctly, in WX the archives were needed in order to prevent the finished threads from being deleted, which is not a problem here, right?
Not asking for anything, of course, just wondering how things work]
§ ita § - Oct 27, 2002 10:02:47 am PST #634 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'll need to finish writing the threadsuck before those threads can be added to the archive.
Nilly - Oct 27, 2002 10:07:53 am PST #635 of 10001
Swouncing
And ita rocks again. Thanks!
Jon B. - Oct 27, 2002 10:08:02 am PST #636 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Interesting point. I doubt that keeping the old threads around in the main area affects performance, but after a while, the main page will look rather cluttered. I think that once we've gotten a threadsuck utility going, we'll start to archive old Phoenix threads.
t spooky x-post with ita
Noumenon - Oct 27, 2002 10:36:46 am PST #637 of 10001
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti
You should also keep yourself subscribed to Natter 1 and 2 so that the search function will search them when you search your subscribed threads.
Rebecca Lizard - Oct 27, 2002 11:23:30 am PST #638 of 10001
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
Interesting point. I doubt that keeping the old threads around in the main area affects performance, but after a while, the main page will look rather cluttered.
Yeah, that was my point. And I was just thinking about the Set Profile page and what it'll look like when we're up to Natter 29 again.
[edited because-- personal pronouns! sometimes they're useful!]
Betsy HP - Oct 27, 2002 5:09:59 pm PST #639 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
We need a new line in the FAQ's ita entry:
Oh, and she's a moon in the Firefly universe.
Laura - Oct 27, 2002 5:38:37 pm PST #640 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
Ita Moon!
§ ita § - Oct 28, 2002 3:19:10 pm PST #641 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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