After digging back, I'm much more against this idea then where I stood when I initially posted that suggestion. Separating tech from non tech would likely just lead to one very used subforum, and one mostly idle one. Even applied historically, this would be mostly true.

Since this doesn't impact the board like it did a few months ago, anyone here is free to poke at the archives to see if they come to the same tech vs non tech conclusions I did. I did so by using this link:

http://empegbbs.com/ubbthreads.php/ubb/postlist/Board/14/page/1

then I'd change that last number to something random, between 1 and 332. The higher the number, the farther back in time you go.

For the lazy, here is a few random ones:

http://empegbbs.com/ubbthreads.php/ubb/postlist/Board/14/page/155

http://empegbbs.com/ubbthreads.php/ubb/postlist/Board/14/page/32

http://empegbbs.com/ubbthreads.php/ubb/postlist/Board/14/page/301

http://empegbbs.com/ubbthreads.php/ubb/postlist/Board/14/page/254

http://empegbbs.com/ubbthreads.php/ubb/postlist/Board/14/page/217

http://empegbbs.com/ubbthreads.php/ubb/postlist/Board/14/page/74