I, Unidian, "Naturyl," James Quirk, am a popcorn maker.

[SeekerOfWisdom]

"how, when ,who, where, what, why dissolves ultimately."


See here, some important paradoxical knowledge, can't wait for another person to ask me a "what" question.

[guest_of_logic]

Thou comprehendest not: Laird has a program that 'collects' posts, like a vacuum cleaner, but it requires an active status.

Really? That's interesting. I'd like to know how that works.

It's basically a web scraper written in PHP. It uses the "Search user’s posts" function on the member page to track down and download all posts made by the user in question, and then it outputs them as HTML (easily exported to OpenOffice.org or Microsoft Office document format), thread by thread with a table of contents. It works well enough although it would be a heap faster to write a version that instead of scraping ran directly on Kevin's web host and accessed the GF database directly.

(I've only been skimming this thread, too lightly to have really taken much from it, so I won't post any further comments for now)