yeah but most of my community members are extremely challenged by computers. i have a hard enough time explaining the difference between using email vs. using a website cuz to them its all the same
but i got heavyduty search n replace Win32 development tools, and ubb text file munging utility code. I've gotten quite fluent with sucking in .cgi data files from my ubb and converting to sql server database records then used by the my custom rss generation engine. so if someone can point me to where in the heck the "subscribe to topic" data is stored, i can munge it out from the backend fairly quick & painless.