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I had some difficulty this weekend cleaning up the board. I didn't want to simply hose all old messages. There are certain threads I wished to save. The problem was that the administration program to remove messages produces a table with radio buttons to mark messages to delete. The only option that allowed me to select threads was sorted with the most recent message first. All the browsers I have immediate access to have a limit of 512 radio buttons per form (evidently). When this limit is exceeded, the submit button is absent. This meant I was unable to delete the OLDEST messages (or any messages at all, unless I selected by date [not threaded]). The solution was to rewrite some of the code so that I could see only the OLDEST 200 message details (this results in 400 radio buttons).
Anyway, the reason I am telling you all this is that I have decided to eliminate messages based upon importance. I may eventually have a program to access server log statistics to automatically prioritize messages based upon readership. For now, I will use my own judgment. For example, I think the survey should stay for now. However, the messages for the Men's Long Hair E-mail list no longer are necessary (except for the monthly update, which I left).
If you have any feedback, please let me know.