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Any and all information appreciated. Many thanks! :)
It used to be that they still displayed their previous reply counts, etc., but when you opened them up there weren't any posts. I never figured out what was up with that, though.
I spoke with Jacob about this and he's at a loss to explain it. It's possible that data just somehow vanished during a server move. It's probably safe to assume they'll stay that way. Sorry.
BTW, I'm a Computer Science PhD/Professor.
Would you be willing to give me read access to your old backup tapes?
If so, I'd be happy to take a crack at trying to coax the data back into the land of the living (starting next month, after this semester concludes)... :)
I will vouch for his skills and helpfulness. At 'Worldwalker' which is my game at RPOL.net, he's been a long-time player, and I've been running the game for over two years.
He arranged the posts in several fashions, and arranged links to them (so if you wanted to look at all the games for a particular player, it was nicely broken out for you, which feature, I used just last week.) And he's updated this system as well.
I acknowledged him in one of my books as the IT Department for Worldwalker (kind of an inside joke, perhaps). But he's been enormously helpful, and it seemed the least I could do.
Just my two quarters...
Eric
I'll talk to Jacob -- who controls all that server mumbo jumbo -- and see if we can work something out.
Okay, Jacob's going to poke around and see what sort of old backups he can come up with. And then, Oak, we'll pass along to you whatever we can find for you to mess around with.
Good stuff! Many thanks... :D