>>>>>If i read it correctly, Michel is selling the personal data of the users too.
>>>>>If that is true, i totally won't like that.
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>>>>>I'm afraid of a spammer org buying the UT base, just for it's userbase.
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>>>>Like we don't already deal with spam on a daily basis?
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>>>>Don't get me wrong, I am all for privacy. I'm not sure Michel has much data about us that is all that private. Probably contact info and some stats on which forums and sections we visit here. IMO a buyer would reasonably expect to receive that information.
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>>>Just like M$ expected to own all the community and herd it into .net once they owned Fox. Except I expect the community will evaporate if UT is sold.
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>>That really depends what the buyer decides to do with it, don't you think? They may want to just carry on as is.
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>What I said elsewhere about preferring to buy stuff from small independent vendors. The trouble begins when they sell.
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>I posted a lot of photos on Panoramio, because they had a neat idea. Then Google bought them and I keep getting invitations to groups... with the stipulation that I "upgrade" to a G+ account, i.e. connect these pictures with my gmail account.
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>My blog is hosted by blogspot. Now that is owned by Google too. If I allowed all these to be put together, anyone with access to the data could pretty much know where I was at certain times. Which would have been impossible, had these remained independent.

Can you recommend a tool or tools for developing a blog site? Part B, is a blog just a web site or is it fundamentally different in some ways? I think I can klutz out a web site using just HTML, CSS, classic ASP, and some JavaScript or jQuery, but maybe there is an easier/faster way.

Back on thread topic, you'll never guess who I received an email from yesterday. Kevin Goff. He had heard (didn't say where) that Michel has the site up for sale. It still rankles him that he was banned for life and that some people believed he was "Grover." He denied it vehemently enough to me at the time that I believed him. Kevin may be a bomb thrower but I have not known him to be dishonest. If the site is sold, I hope he is allowed back in.