WarpMyMind

How long do you think I should keep old messages and threads?

This may not be the result you are hoping to hear, but i would hope that the messages in the actual discussion areas would be kept essentially forever. Perhaps a searchable archive could be created for those older than a year but many times there is wisdom in the older posts and it is worth checking that out either as a newbie or as a more experienced member who remembers having heard just the right answer before, somewhere.

the masked womyn

I was the only moderator on a very large adult forum called NTCweb which is now sadly gone. The administrators of that site archived all the discussion threads (including the boring ones) all the way back to the creation of the website. At the time of it's demise last December, NTC was about five or six years old, and all the archived discussions were still there, and were easily accessible by links that identified the time frame for each archive. If you have enough band width, you can do it. drydreamer