Wayne:
These detailed and informative presentations of topics of general interest are absolutely fascinating, and too useful to be lost in the history of the forum. Is there a way of pulling them out into a more organized structure (for example categorized like a blog or organized under some kind of navigation structure)?I have used Wordpress as a mechanism for organizing information - it's completely painless to enter posts, and each is categorized, making search by author, category or date trivial.
I suspect a lot of your online audience are less skilled in all this than you are (I am certainly one of the less skilled) and would greatly benefit from an efficient way to find their way around the wealth of material on the forum.
Any thoughts? If I can help I'd be happy to do so. I would suggest leaving the forum as is, but creating a parallel universe populated by the most educational and interesting messages, categorized appropriately and accessible from your front page and the forum header.
Regards,
tim