From a technical point of view, it's a complete pain in the ass to delete accounts. If you keep the text content they contributed to the discussion, it's still going to need to have a writer in the users table. So you either replace their account with a dummy account for every post -- which helps no one. Or you keep it linked to the deleted account, and then anyone can come on later and impersonate you by creating a new account. Really, disabling the account (and hopefully deleting non-public data) is the best way to go.
Maybe the Eyrie would be willing to host us on it's glorious DCForum 6.23. What, hey, it went to 6.25? There was apparently an upgrade in 2003. Let me download that.
/google-fu for 10 minutes
/cast arcane archive.org incantation
/read eldritch perlonomicon
Did you know that you can use a single quote character to delimit namespaces in Perl? I did because I'm 1337 like that, but BBEdit's syntax highlighter sure doesn't know. Anyway this appears to predate CGI.pm which is um, impressive!
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Maybe the Eyrie would be willing to host us on it's glorious DCForum 6.23. What, hey, it went to 6.25? There was apparently an upgrade in 2003. Let me download that.
/google-fu for 10 minutes
/cast arcane archive.org incantation
/read eldritch perlonomicon
Did you know that you can use a single quote character to delimit namespaces in Perl? I did because I'm 1337 like that, but BBEdit's syntax highlighter sure doesn't know. Anyway this appears to predate CGI.pm which is um, impressive!
-- ∇×V