zenmonkey wrote:
Google search of the forum works quite well, and yes, some of the archives are of value to me. I recently went back and looked up some discussion on Ivresen's Method and searched for some links on rare languages there.
Yes, Iversen's posts are valuable, and of course by others also.
I meant that the content is not valuable becuase of the forum's technology. In a book, you can see the index and the pages, and chapters. on htlal it seems overwhelming if you want to find something.
Then if you can find it, the posts can't be presented with useful things, for example not bullet points, images etc.
Maybe for me this is more problematic than for others, I don't know. reading use concentration. i can't read long paragraphs and if the writing is in clear sections which are short, sometimes with bullet points, images etc it's much, much better. this things were banned there, also the smilies were banned, but I think that this things make the reading much easier. also in a book, some books have a good font, clear presnetation, but others are totally impossible.
zenmonkey wrote:
Neither the unreliability of the forum nor the difficulty of finding the information is relevant to the copyright - it is intended to protect an author from the potential use of material not whether someone actually does copy. An individual that posts here should have a clear position on whether their words *may* be used elsewhere or not. And whether they *may* be transformed or not.
Yes, it's extremely important.