There are also many threads available online in google caches. I searched for some familiar and unique names and found long lists of pages that are saved in caches. But google doesn't save caches forever, so I'm going to save many on my computer.

You can find many under my name. I searched for Teretxu-2 and found many threads. Has Teresa found us yet?

You need to click here where it says:

"In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 5 already displayed.
If you like, you can repeat the search with the omitted results included."

I also clicked "similar pages" and found many more threads, available in caches.

You can find more user names in the caches and search for those, too.

It doesn't work well for many name, though, and I don't know why.

Jaye, I think if people don't want there posts to be seen, they should delete them after awhile, using the edit function. Someone on another board had a habit of doing that, and it was a shame, because her posts contained valuable info, but that was her choice. I think that if you make the choice to leave your post at Braintalk, then it's a strong possibility it will be seen in another context. I personally don't think permission is needed, but maybe others disagree.