Hi all,

I am a newbie to BAUT but have previously used VBulletin at Physics Forums.
I actually have two questions.

The easy one is this: am I correct in understading that BAUT has only very limited support for mathematical formulas? If so, that is regretable since for example in threads on cosmological models in order to fix ideas it would be useful to be able to write out a line element and state intended range of coordinates, to avoid misunderstanding. If not, can someone provide a link to a tutorial on including math? And while we are at it, what about uploading small figures (e.g. diagrams to illustrate a geometric scenario)?

The thornier one is this:

My BAUT debut got off to a rocky start: I reconsidered and deleted my initial post shortly after posting it, basically because I decided on further reflection that my speaking up would probably not help much. I agree it is much better to not post than to post and then delete, but that's not the point here.
The point is that JimJast, one of the participants in that thread (see Einstein's universe), who is himself a BAUT newbie (or so I understand), apparently signed up for email notification of replies to his own posts, and consequently he apparently received by email my entire post. By the time he came back to BAUT the next day, due to a misunderstanding someone else had already reposted my deleted post and Jim (the moderator, not to be confused with JimJast) had deleted the repost. But then JimJast apparently used his "email notification" to repost my entire self-deleted post a -second- time! (And he seems to be claiming he is entitled to do so.) When I came back myself I therefore several posts quoting snippets from my self-deleted post, which placed me in an awkward position.

(I chose to post a second time to try to restore the missing context and then withdrew from the thread, which was my attempt to make the most of a bad situation. Alas, things have gotten even -more- confusing since then--- arghgh!--- but that's not the point here. BTW, I hope I have described events accurately but can't be sure since I'm so new here. And thanks again to Jim (the moderator) for trying to fix the mess, but unfortunately this seems to have proven impossible.)

So my question is: for future reference: am I correct in concluding that users who opt into email notification receive the entire text of all replies to their posts, so that the same situation could arise again? Is there any BAUT rule against user V reposting a post self-deleted by user U?

I hope it is clear that the problem here is that snippets quoted from a self-deleted ill-advised post can perhaps lead to even more confusion and/or vituperation than leaving up the original ill-advised post. As I said, clearly the original cause of this particular mess was that I posted in the first place, which I now regret even more than I did when I deleted the thing!