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Ursus:
To Those That Would Be Interested:
How To Retrieve Material That Once Was There, But Now Is Not:

Got to Google
Select: Advanced Search
Enter: relevant search words in the Find Results box
Enter: site or domain name in the Domain box
Hit return
Open cache rather than site link in the search results.

webdiva:
or  go here they go FAR FAR BACK way farther then google
http://http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

Ursus:
But how does one penetrate into Forum archives?  Wayback only give me their indexes, not the contents.

webdiva:
Did you check? heheh  It has pages that have long since been deleted from fornits unless they were requested to be removed. Google will only cache pages that Exist.. if they no longer exist EVENTUALLY they will get dropped when the site is respidered. Archive.org keeps them forever. its just another way to get good info.  For instance you go here

Over 26000 posts dating back to 2004
It will show posts only if you put viewtopic* at the end of your search term etc.

The board from 2002

BOTH are good resources for different reasons.  However archive.org TRULY archives google doesn't once it realizes the page is missing.

webdiva:

--- Quote from: ""Ursus"" ---Wayback only give me their indexes, not the contents.
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Not so u just need to know how to search. ill send you some tips sometime. takes a little getting used to but check out their advanced search section.

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