Yes, it means that only those who already have access to those forums on the old boards would be able to archive them. I'm not usually adding people to forums they didn't have access to already, particularly private forums such as those.
This time it's for archiving. :D
Part of my new job description is handling our archives, which is a copy of records that may potentially come up later for membership or legal purposes. Unfortunately, we've never really done a great job of doing that, mostly because no one person has ever been...