yes eva,

The point is to make the tables full of less data and to let people read old post but not reply and get it out of the table so it doesn't add to the problem of too many mysql requests.

Plus it will be better for search engines, I will not feel so guilty when I prune, and I have plenty of room for a html files archive.

Someone please help if they have some knowledge in this subject.

We need conversion of the php-mysql post to plain html with an index page that only has the titles of the posts.

Thanks if anyone is smart enough to figure this one out.
That was the great thing about UBB.
I could archive and not worry about the html files taking up too much space.
And since vbulletin has saved me 250MB over UBB I would love to use the space for a really good old archive.

thanks.