Yes

There's a trick to it - because we all share the same copy of MT, you can't actually put the file where it wants it. I've modified our copy of MT3 to import from your archives directory, but I haven't actually tested it, so I'd suggest you don't try it just yet as it might explode or something.

I'll give it a whirl today and let you know.

I've noticed that this MT version uses a different indexing system than the 6-digit string I had at, um, er, another site. I can understand the why of doing it the way you're doing it here. But what do we do about somehow integrating two different filing systems under one roof?

Would there have to be manual renumbering/relabeling involved, to coordinate the 6-digit string with the date posted---or what?

Unfortunately, yes.

You have complete control over how your posts are filed - and you can file them under multiple different URLs if you want - but the number of the post depends on when it was created and how many posts were already in the database. Even if you created a fresh database and imported straight into it, you'd get different numbering if you'd ever deleted a post on the old blog.

The new naming convention is just the default for MT3, and you can override it to name your posts any way you like.