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To: Sarkie who wrote (95)	12/29/2004 9:57:02 AM
From: Green Receipt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 165

its not me!!! lol

To: Sarkie who wrote (95)	1/5/2005 1:20:42 AM
From: Green Receipt	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 165

I believe I've figured it out... Actually its a good solution what they are doing now.. Keeps the threads from being sparsely populated in the vast forum areas. For a given forum there is an unlimited number of threads. The space for forums can be boundless too if they permit it. The original SI forums maxed out somewhere out there at 9999999 or something like that i forget exactly where. if you posted in forum 10000 you could and the original code only indexed forums 1-99999 so in effect everything was priviate. When SI got rebuilt they forgot to include 10000 and up except for one private area that I'm aware of and we had the problem of having to do everything on one line. Now in the new version, threads sitting out in never never land end up getting moved on an occasional basis back to the coffee shop. It also provides a future for SI so they can do new projects without having to worry about the crazyness of the old system. Essentially from what I have gathered is they are running a cron job (or equivalent on a periodic basis) that does a select on all threads not in the common set of forums and then with the results, reassigns those to the coffee shop. some of the old time special areas (undocumented forums) are still around and it seems to avoid those areas. David