Good point LizaJane,

I like the idea of the moderators introducing themselves and they are familar names. I lost everything on the old site--I had addresses or links stores in various places. But with the prime site gone they went too. Lesson learned --hard copy of all important information.

I don't know which way to go either. This new site is becoming comfortable.

I was not able to sign up at BT1 with my actual e-mail address. I had to use a free account, because the BT confirmation messages did not make it past my e-mail server. I don't even know what that free account was anymore.

Fixing this is certainly possible. However, it requires a site admin to, ahem, pay attention to the problem.

You probably see where I'm going with this.

Forum discussion about the "two" Braintalks going on here at this link:

http://forums.braintalk2.org/showthread.php?t=2387

It seems unlikely, from the posts I've read, that all of the stickies and info and links and very complicated posts will be recovered at OBT (JLester's site).

It seems terrible that all that detailed information and research was just ... lost.

Unfortunately, when a system crashes ... that's what happens.

I have two backup drives for my own little computer, and they alternate backing up each night. This cost me a couple of hundred dollars for two drives, and a program to automatically run backup.

But what would that amount to, in terms of time and money and system management, I wonder, for backing up a website of OBT's magnitude?

So ... in either place, members will be starting from scratch, yes?

I tried to register and received no e-mail to activate.

So I re-registered using my name without the L after it and guess what? I never needed to activate it.

It just told me "go ahead and post". and I did.

So I guess we're up and running again.

Now we have two places.

see you at the old homestead!!!!

Melody

I tried the allotted no. of times and couldn't get logged in. Various usernames, passwords, etc. nothing worked. I'll try going back and registering again. I'm not sure about two of them. I'm feeling comfortable here after an unsure start. But we may be able to pick up a lot of the old folks on the old forum and possibly recover all we've lost. Sure hope so. And I'd like to have the old Sjogrens forum back, I had a lot of research on that one that, of course, I had not saved.
Billye