Nancy, I agree with you. Forum formats are not really designed for the purpose of storing data. Being the creative bunch we are, we made it work for us in the past, but I don't think it is the best way to store data either.

Wiki sites, google pages, blogs... even indexed PDF files like this
http://homepage.mac.com/sholland/celiac/GFfoodlist.pdf
stored on someone's home ISP site would work for various applications. These type of things would be good for recipes, getting started lists, looking for cross contamination, how to do an elimination diet, recommended book lists, etc.

Still, there are things like the Journey's thread that sort of just evolved... that people liked to update when they found out new information/ new test results/ new diagnoses. There are other examples, too, were we relied on editing for our day to day things, like cross referencing threads into other threads when we came across them, keeping all good things together. Those are the sort of things we can't just recreate anyway... they evolve over time.

By the way, I am thinking of adding out a page of 'GF stories' to TGF if there is interest... so anybody who has a story to tell... start working on it . I think telling our stories is the best way to get the message out there... we all have such unique backdrops of how we got here.

Cara