h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Ah, that makes sense

So no reason to neither you nor Jim

Who wants ?

Well at least you got an e-mail

I shall wait it out and see what happens, if I need an e-mail to transfer and it its a no show the decision is made for me.

It looks like some of us will be left behind I hope we will get a chance to say goodbye.

bob - you won't get left behind. Seriously. We'll send out a search party or something. Maybe a sort of party - well any excuse!

Bob, I added you to the bottom of one of my newbie lists, which the Eds are still encrypting since the emails went out. You should be taken through with the rest of us

lil x

Besides, at the very worst you may have to open a new user account.

It will take years off your life. You can start all over. Like Cher

If I could turn back tii'ime... If I could find a wa'ayee *hic*

Once everything is signed and the deal sealed we'll be getting a copy of the database behind h2g2. Part of that database is a list of all user accounts, which will have the email addresses encrypted. We won't be able to unencrypt those email addresses, but we will be able to encrypt email addresses that users type in, and check those encrypted ones against the encrypted ones in the database, and if we get a match we'll store the unencrypted one that people have typed in.

Using this method we will be bringing across all accounts that people haven't asked the BBC to remove, and you won't need to re-register or create a new account. You'll merely be reclaiming your current one.

Of course, until everything's signed and we here the database and the code I can't actually build that account reclaimation part, but the BBC techs are very helpfull and the prototype is testing well.

Thanks, Pastey


lil xx

still not budging

We'll get 2legs to manhandle you

Good idea lil, we will need someone to blame if the Prof gets too stroppy,

We'll just get the Prof to inflate Ivan, that will keep him busy while we quietly move across

She means me! Dafty!

That is such a relief, especially for the Prof I imagine.

And all the others in the pub!

What happens to anyone who gets left behind? Some sort of hootoo limbo I suppose..

They can just open a new user account. Their old stuff will still be there, they just won't be able to log into it.

We shall have to see what the next email tells us to do, and work things out from there

We won't lose you, Incog. We need a Chairthingy


lil x