Yes, I saw the link to the old board, but that does not answer my previous comment. If I were a newbie just starting to learn to use the online resources available, and I came into this new forum looking to learn, I would see a forum with just a few posted questions and I'd leave without joining and never come back.
Searching for a link to archives, in a thread in a different forum only works if you know about it beforehand. Even if you had a big button on the front page that said ARCHIVES I doubt that most new users would find it very quickly, and being directed to a dead forum isn't likely to attract new members.
When I was first learning and discovered this forum about a year ago, one of the first things I saw was a huge wealth of questions and answers to browse through. It got me interested and hooked, so after a while I joined and started asking my own questions. But I spent several months reading old messages and new ones that came in at the same time before I felt like I knew enough to contribute. I really feel that losing that ability will be a huge loss.
I know that things change and especially with computers you have advance just to keep up, but the greatest value (by a very large margin) in a forum like this is the ability to preserve information and pass it on to other people to help us preserve our antique jeeps. People like Wes K and many others spend a lot of time gathering and compiling information to preserve it because preserving that info is important and valuable. The rest of us benefit greatly by their efforts. Giving up all that old knowledge, or hiding it in an archive, is not moving forward.
