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You will find that most Bowie fans who are interested in Bowie-related topics (the really interesting stuff, like what Bowie ate for breakfast today and Claude's latest close-ups on Bowie's crotch) have already found other sites/news forums because TW has not been updated for so long.

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I come here for Bowie news, and discussion about Bowie. If the purpose of these boards is not discussion about Bowie, then we might as well shut down the entire place.

And as an additional point, I am also a member of BowieAudio, and I occasionally check news in Bnet and Bassman. However, I find TW a much more pleasant place to get Bowie news and discuss Bowie. Even with all the quarrels here, this place still has a better atmosphere than other boards.

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sure all you pseudo-postmodernists with your Derrida-this and your Baudrillard-that think that history has come to an end, but for those of us who realise that we are nothing where we are without where we came from, the idea of allowing our thoughts and ideas be banished to digital oblivion is downright offensive.

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I would like to point out that I'm studying to be accepted to the History faculty of the Helsinki University. And like I said, the threads that are considered historically important could be saved. All you need to do is request that.

Don't give us people here too much credit, dude.

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So what of these glorious archives we keep hearing about? Are they just sitting around on someone's hard drive or are they, too, lost forever?

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If I've understood correctly, the threads culled by Evan in the great archiving were truly archived, but any threads deleted later on (by the autodelete in Artiste or by the mods elsewhere) are simply deleted with no chance or retrieving them.

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