[annieb]

Sorry, I haven't responsed to this in a while, had to go out of town on an emergency. I appreciate the suggestions, but still think my point is being missed. ALL I want is a "copy" of the board (ie the archive) to write to a location outside of my website members' area, so the general public can read it - and hopefully be intrigued by what the members are saying and thus join the site. If the board is in the members' area of my website, my website's member data base will "protect" the board and will allow any paid members to post (as long as they also create a username on the board). Any members whose memberships decline or are canceled will not have access to the members' area so by default will not have access to the board. I don't care if they are "removed" from the board's database since the result is the same. In fact I would prefer that they NOT be removed from the board's database, since many members whose memberships decline (say because their credit card has expired) rejoin quickly, and then they would not have to recreate their vbulletin log in.

So at this point, all I am interested in(I think) is how to alter vbulletin's code so that the board's archive writes to a directory different than what would be the default...

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