Stored on my computer, I have quite a few items from the older Braintalk and MGH Forums which I copied for my own personal use. It seems now that we could use a little history, and I wonder if anyone tell me the proper way to share these. Greg? Moderator? Anyone? Do I have to ask each and every person whose writing appears in them to give permission to post them here? Do I have to ask DocJohn if I can post them here?

Is anyone interested in seeing some of these, sometimes whole threads, and in sharing some of their own?

I would weed out anything humiliating or damaging as best I could, as I assume anyone else would, too.

Jaye

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.

If the posts are not erased they belong to everyone who reads them. The forum is a place to share thoughts and information. A lot of good thoughts and important information will be lost if no one bothers to save and repost.
Yes please Jaye, do share the history you have, it will make this place feel more like home.

birte

This is an opportunity to help us with something we don't know much about. So far I have general agreement.....well read above, please.

Can you help me out? Will you? Please?

Jaye

I did note this question and I had asked KimmyDawn, an Admin on these forums for her response. She wants us to wait for DocJohn to provide the answer to this. Because this is an issue of copyright, we're not clear on what the rules are. The initial thinking is that you would not be allowed to copy here anything but your own posts from elsewhere, because you would need the permission of every other person who wrote a post to copy their material here.

If there is information on a google cache, you could provide a link to it here (with a few paragraphs under "fair use"). But until DocJohn weighs in, we're not sure that it is permissible to copy entire threads that used to be at BT1 without each author's permission.

HB, thanks for looking into it, I really appreciate it. There are still enough of us in touch that I think we can work out something interesting within proper limits. I await DocJohn's word.

I also look forward to the bank of knowledge and understanding being built by the present constellation of great people.

Jaye

Birte!!! Your here...I'm soooo happy. You were one of my favorites and I thought you were lost!

You have my permission to post anything of mine. Jaye, does this mean we can keep the official "shortest post on BT" which you have the honor of holding? That's a keeper!

Hello Rosebud, nice to see you here too, and thank you - same to you - i never miss a post of yours. I was in Denmark all summer where I had no computer.

And Jaye, please feel free to use anything I've ever posted no matter how silly the subject or my input may be.

birte

Ditto and then some.

!Hi Rosebud, good to see you, too. I didn't make a copy of it or the thread, did you? Who knew disaster loomed? I'll try to reproduce it from memory some time.

You guys are brave. I've said some really asinine things in the past and not sure I could give such a blanket permission, but mostly it would be fine with me, too.

Jaye

Yes, I see no reason not to do this.

We need to try and rebuild as much of that historical record as possible, since it's apparently lost. So much of that information is invaluable.

John