Yes i was very aware of that thread, i could not reply to it because i do not have posting privilages:
A couple of things to consider:
1. We are not a business. I am a single person, a student, who runs the site for fun. The advertising on the site goes towards paying the enermous server costs but dosen't get close.
2. We were not "conveniently there". My co-admin used to be a member of that forum and got an email from them. She suggested we offer the site as an alternative to people as the Xena section is a big neglected here. I then thought about importing the data. In the end it dosen't affect me one bit, I am not personally a xena fan - i was trying to do something to help people out who wanted their forum not to die. It appears most people recognised this but i think you consider me to have hidden ulterior motives.
3. We understnad that data privacy. If you read stuido usa privacy policy the only thing it mentions is confidential information like emails etc. We did not want this. The issue of whether data can be transferred is not an easy one and is similair to the copyright issues surronding newsgroups. I don't think studio USA say anything about who retains copyright of the posts but it would be assumed to be the person who posted if they do not say. That is why, after reading your post, i got someone to immediatly post that any person whose did not want their data transported could over could have it deleted. I know you have lots and lots of posts but it is a single mouse click that would delete every one of your posts so they would never be archived here.
4. Permission
I don't really know what you are talking about here. We can't get the data without getting it from StudioUSA, they would clearly have to give it to us.
5. People
If you really wanted it we could do it the reverse way round and delete everyone's posts who did not say "yes". There would i assume be no problem with this would there? it would result in distorted threads i would imagine but still better than nothing.
6. as for
I've been to ASCIFI and even registered there. I found the board slow to load and cumbersome. I cannot imagine what a dinosaur it will be with 150+ people all posting at the same time. The format and set up sucks and isn't very compatible with different OS platforms.
We had a ten minute outage yesterday when a backup of the databases failed while i was testing a new automated script, perhaps you came there. Vbulletin is a much more powerful script than UBB and if you visit
www.vbulletin.com you will find almost all the big UBB are moving to it. The reason is that UBB kills most servers (probably why studioUSA were going to close it down, the cost of keeping it there). I never find it slow over 56.6 or over a T3 connection. As opposed to other Operating systems? i assume you mean browsers as the operating system is irrelevant. Yes there is a problem with it in netscape but that is being fixed soon.
Really this response surprised me. I took into all issues of copyright when asking about this and expect quite a postive response. It surprised me especially when someone with so many posts wanted to see all the time they had put into a site deleted.
In any way, your forum will remain open for a few more months so the issue does not matter. Sometimes you do get the feeling that trying to help others is just not worth it.
<hummmmm just wanted to smile here not
