| >| >>I have a FP2000 discussion on a windows server with FP2000 extensions.
| >> that gets many posts that are not related to the topics and contain
| >> links to their sights for the obvious purpose of being seen by web
| >> crawlers.
| >>
| >> I have been successful in deleting these post by deleting from the
| >> bottom of the thread and recalculating hyperlinks after each deletion.
| >>
| >> My question is, does anyone know if I can delete more than one file
| >> between recalculations? I seem to remember a time many years ago when
| >> I hosed the discussion when I deleted many posts at one time.
| >>
| >> Advice will be appreciated.
| >> Stan Hilliard
|
| >Deleting/Editing Posts in Discussion Group
| >
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q196/1/26.ASP
| >
http://office.microsoft.com/assistance/2000/FPDiscmgmt.aspx
| >--
| >Tom Willett
|
| Please help me to understand what seems to me to be contradictions in
| the instructions about deleting. The reason that this is important to
| me is that I get an overwhelming number of enemy posts. I could have
| to spend too much time on it. Also, the volume is so great that to
| replace text with "deleted" would still leave the TOC looking
| terrible.
|
| I can't reconcile the following:
|
| 1) Stefan Rusynko:
| "Deleting them will corrupt / has corrupted your DW index - always
| edit them as say - "Content removed""
|
| 2)
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q196/1/26.ASP
| "To delete the article, open it and delete all the text in the
| article, or replace it with a message like Content Removed by
| Moderator.
| NOTE: Do not delete the article. Doing so can result in orphaned
| discussion articles."
| (This seems to support (1))
|
| 3)
http://office.microsoft.com/assistance/2000/FPDiscmgmt.aspx
| "... you may want to remove old, inactive threads to keep your site
| fresh and to free up space on your Web server. Information in this
| article will help you safely edit or delete files that make up
| discussion threads."
| <snip>
| "For each file that you find, in Folders view, right-click the file,
| and then click Delete."
| (This specifically says you CAN safely delete FILES.)
|
| 4) My experience: I have deleted files for many years. I don't know if
| my web is corrupted but it seems to work OK.
|
| I have two questions:
|
| 1) Main question: How to reconcile what appears to be conflicting
| recommendations?
|
| 2) Some issues depend on FP versions, it seems like some issues would
| depend on the version of FP that initially created the discussion. But
| some issues would depend on the current version of FP that I use to
| maintain it. And on the extensions, and on the server type (Windows,
| Unix, etc.) The MS literature only refers to the FP version. In my
| case, I started with FP97, then for maintenance I upgraded FP to 98,
| and 2000 but have the same web that I created initially.
| So what version is my discussion web?
