More Glitches in the ATS Matrix

[ArMaP]

It sounds like a pretty efficient process.  I think I'd probably be inclined to export the data into an application where I could easily cull out the extraneous data.  For example, Post and Thread ID aren't really relevant to anyone other than ATS.

By keeping the post and thread ID I can know what post is being answered when there's only a link, as that link has both. Also, the thread ID points to the threads list, where I have the thread's name and in which forum it was posted.

Is your program automated, or do you have to extract the data on a manual thread by thread basis?  In other words, do you have to know the name/title of the the thread before you can capture the data, or have you developed some kind of a wildcard to automate this process?  I would think it would be a pretty tedious slog through the mud without some automation like that.

It's automated. I choose a forum from a list and the program reads all threads from the threads list, then goes through the list and reads all posts from each thread. For each post it saves only the HTML that creates the post area, where the content is.

In summary, I guess my posture would be; things being what they are over there on ATS, I seriously doubt there is anyone with enough legal standing to care one way or the other what happens to the data.  They don't seem to care about anything else, and I think we all agree that the content data is the most valuable part of what remains of ATS.

One thing for which I don't have an answer and that could change things is what happened to TAN.

If TAN still exists then all references to TAN apply.
If TAN exists but wasn't sold along with the site then the original owners are the co-owners of the content, not the new owners.
If TAN doesn't exist anymore, what happens? Are the individual posters the only owners of the content they created?

Well, you have one of my highest compliments if you do it like that.  You speak excellent English.

Thanks.

I suppose I do it like that because I learned English by watching subtitled movies and TV shows, so I don't have the basic knowledge other people that learn a language by "traditional" methods have.
 

When I first started learning Spanish I used to do it that way also, but it became too difficult after a while primarily because of the differences in sentence structure / word order.  I think native tongue English speakers are at a disadvantage learning other languages because of exactly this.

Other languages, like Japanese, have a completely different structure that does not follow either the Romance or Germanic languages' structures, which makes it hard to be learned by people that speak either Romance or Germanic languages.

Because of that I don't have much hope of learning Japanese just by watching Japanese animation, but I already learned some words and a four or five characters. Now I only need to learn the other  300. 
 

I really ran into trouble with my skills while working down in Peru.  There, Portuguese and other dialects of Spanish creep into the language.  We were working with a team out of our Madrid office, and I had a gal tell me one time that she was born and raised in Mexico and now lives in Spain.  That transition was no big deal to her, but when she attempted to communicate in Peru..."people look at me like I have two heads; they don't understand a word I'm saying"  I was sure glad to learn I wasn't the only one!!  It's like a whole other language.

Yes, the South American versions of Spanish have many other influences. In Argentina, for example, they have a relatively strong Italian influence.