Importing Text Files
 

I have text files from about 1000 emails from an L-SOFT listserv. There were only about 40 users and its not that much. It has good historical content so I'd like to try an import it into a virtually empty vBulletin forum. I know that Impex normally only works for importing users.

I would have no trouble cutting and pasting into a template, for example .csv form.

For us the data being searchable and available is more importantly than correctly linking to active users and etc.

Given this, here is what I hope:

• I would manually put in a set of users (takes a few minutes for that few)

• I manually put the text files into a .csv file or the equivalent. I assume it would be something like columns of:Forum ID, Thread ID, User ID, Date, Post (or whatever, just guessing)

• Then I would import the file, rebuild the threads, make the old users inactive, invite the previous members to join up.

Is there anyway my hope can be satisfied. If not with instructions, are there consultants that could help us?

Alternatively, is there a way to manually cut and paste the data into vBulletin as an Admin?

Curious if I have any paths to keep this data in the system?