Importing Member Data from another board

Hi All - I'm just setting up Web Wiz forum V. 8.0 on a site that used to have another board running on it.  The old board is called Boardless and is very old.  Thing is we've got about 400 members on the old board that I'd like to import in to Web Wiz; plus around 300 topics and 4000 messages.

I think I'm happy porting the topics and messages but the members...

Has anyone ever batch-imported members?  I can see the main issue being setting an encrypted password for each of them that when they log in again they'll still be able to use their old logins.

Any ideas?
 

I just did a batch import of 80,000 members and it went pretty well. I made an announcement on the forums 2 weeks letting members know they would have to request a new password when the switch was made through the "forgotten password" link.

I think out of 80,000 members, only 20 or so had a problem and that was easy to manually fix.

Just make sure they have current email addresses in their profiles.

Melkor wrote: I just did a batch import of 80,000 members and it went pretty well. I made an announcement on the forums 2 weeks letting members know they would have to request a new password when the switch was made through the "forgotten password" link. I think out of 80,000 members, only 20 or so had a problem and that was easy to manually fix. Just make sure they have current email addresses in their profiles.