Does that sound reasonable?
It sounds positively brilliant and doable and everything we could have hoped for as a small but hopeful community trying to survive these difficult times. Perhaps one day the pre-2007 archives could be re-united with the rest.
I missed those heady days but I understand they were exciting!
Maybe I am being too hopeful but as Doug said, the POSTS only occupy a half a terabyte and, since it IS archival, it's not like anyone's
going to be chewing up massive bandwidth over it. It's good to have the archives as a reference, and if it's possible to get it "sub-hosted" on something
like a "free" WiX basic platform in read only mode, it won't be painful to do.
For the time being I do agree that there is a need to make a dividing line where the current hosting platform cuts off posts prior to....say perhaps
2008 or 2012 for the sake of a smaller footprint.
I'm only saying that there's an incredible amount of wisdom packed into those archives, so please don't just bin-chunk them.
I hope we can find a way to make that happen.
