I can see what reyesron means here.

It's good to spring clean sometimes - so many of us keep too many things now! I appreciate foolishpoolish's desire not to 'clutter up' the web, as stated in another posting. Also, on this site, an author has copyright over their own work plus management of its publication, so they have the right to remove it and I respect that.

However, for anyone else thinking about spring cleaning their blog, I would second what reyesron says. As a newbie I read the archives as well as the new posts and often it's been an archive post that's inspired me or helped me solve baking problems.

Blog entries are in a funny sort of half world, half like private papers, half like pamphlets in a library. Unlike papers in your home, if you tidy them up they disappear from the shared shelf also.

At the other end of the spectrum from the clutter problem the loss of archives both on and offline is also a current cause for concern. Just think how much knowledge of past bread baking practice has been lost because of lack or loss of documentation. This applies to both commercial and home bakers, as both groups were and still are the keepers of knowledge about bread baking.

Bakers please keep your blogs up there if you can! We still love reading them.

Regards, Daisy_A

arg, again... this was completely unrelated to any username change.

Admin had nothing to do with the deletions.

No apologies seem necessary - but obviously some folks dont seem to want to let it go. :P I do agree with LindyD's assessment that PMs would have been sufficient. 

-Admin