# Archiving the forums by subject? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 1, 2001, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archiving-the-forums-by-subject/96222 "2001-12-01T00:07:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2001, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archiving-the-forums-by-subject/96222/1 "2001-12-01T00:07:00Z")
Would it be possible to archive old posts by subject? And by subject, I mean using the OP as a guide. For example, you could have categories such as Entertainment, Politics, Sex, Computers, etc. Of course, it would be costly. I think it would a neat addition and make things easier to search for. Just a’wonderin’… ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2001, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archiving-the-forums-by-subject/96222/2 "2001-12-01T01:07:11Z")
Yeah, it would be POSSIBLE, but I am not going to do it unless I get an awful lot of free time on my hands. And that’s not gonna happen for a while. And I’d want the go-ahead from Ed, Tuba, and the Reader. ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2001, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archiving-the-forums-by-subject/96222/3 "2001-12-01T01:20:06Z")
Yeah, but I see big problems in categorizing. Where would you put the “Is it the Republicans’ fault that there’s no really good naked Jello wrestling computer games?” thread? ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2001, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archiving-the-forums-by-subject/96222/4 "2001-12-01T20:03:06Z")
That’s an **easy** one. Great Debates, of course. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2001, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archiving-the-forums-by-subject/96222/5 "2001-12-01T21:11:28Z")
Actually, this has been discussed in the mods’ email. It’s something that we’d like to see happen. We’d like to archive things like the “Three Men and a Baby” ghost, the gry riddle, locks on 24 hour convenience stores, and other things that occur every now and then. I think that it probably will happen sooner or later. However, there are no OFFICIAL plans to put it into action that I know of.