--than I could be about these very important issues. I envy that.

Good post, Dottye.

I also suspect that Liza Jane's speculations are accurate--I had hinted at some of these points in my thread on BT1, but she has expanded on them quite well.

I suppose, other than the very real question of getting the archives back--said archives of data being the REAL value of Braintalk beyond the community connections--the major concern is some sort of explanation/assurance that such outages/losses will not keep happening.

I agree that the available evidence indicates that JL does not seem much interested in Braintalk anymore. I did make the point, though, that Braintalk and its posters are originally what made JL famous in the on-line world, and enabled him to found Brigadoon, and probably got him his demanding but lucrative job . . .in the end, partly due to this, he owes the debt of respect and honesty to the Braintalk community, and should answer any reasonable questions about the past conduct and future nature of the site.

To get ethnic for a moment, I (we) are asking JL to be a mensch (a stand-up guy).
Or to put it another way (in the words of a website I would love to one day create), to "admit to his s--t".