[WaterBoard]

Oh my, I did not even consider this site was still using PERL for such a high volume website.

One plan for a future change is to keep the old posts in the depreciated PERL version as an archive and just start fresh with a new system/database with username/password imported from the old database.

Converting a CGI forum when millions of posts would not be a fun thing to do. Personally, I would just leave the old system in place and move on a new system for new posts. Just my 2 cents.

[Lazamataz]

The Perl is, to my understanding, working against a database, so I have no thought that the old posts should be deprecated. A record is a record is a record. If it is MySQL, I might suggest a port to SQL -- retaining the old record structure -- since Microsoft's ODBC connector has unnecessary overhead, and I believe any robust Microsoft application runs natively against SQL much better.