And I hope you have not ignored my post at the top of the thread.

"Those original posts are dated on Canie’s Internet Server regarding exactly when they were created etc."

The date time stamps have been preserved in the transfer to my server, since they are encoded into the HTML of each message.

"But if Canie is not planning to transfer the archives until the start of 2013"

Everything has already been copied to my host, and my hard drive. It's been running since before Canie made the announcement. (just need to keep it up-to-date with current posts) The official switchover has yet to happen, but is merely administrative and technical, involving the domain name registrar and updating the DNS servers.

"with a certain type of legal and historical significance."

The historical significance is my primary reason for being willing to take over the forum. I would hate to see such a treasure trove of history just disappear. The prospect of that happening made me rethink my leaving here.

"people who actually believe that earthquakes can be predicted"

I challenge you to name ONE person on this forum that believes earthquakes cannot be predicted. I honestly don't understand where you get this notion. For myself, I have very precisely said more than once that I believe quakes CAN be predicted, only that it has yet to be successfully done to any degree of proven reliability.

EQF, I believe you have a very false impression of myself and others on this board. How you got there, I don't really know. In many ways, I feel you have made things way too hard on yourself.

Finally, this opportunity for me to administrate Earthwaves has put many things that have happened on this board in a new light, and made me rethink many of the things I've posted in the past, and regret some of them. But I can't take them back. Well, I suppose once I take over I could delete them, but that would be a really dishonest thing to do in my opinion, and is antithetical to my reasons for taking over the website.

My point is, *I* am willing to try again, harder, to do better in the future. I am even willing to come to some form of more positive understanding with you. I don't know if it's possible, and I wouldn't expect it to happen any time soon. But I'm willing to give it a try. Things do not have to get worse. Nor do they have to stay the same.

Brian