OldPossum has worked up a way to retrieve messages lost in the crash. If there's a lost thread you'd like to revive, here's how to do it

Please bear with me, the following is going to be verbose, and
probably rather confused, but anyway: Your comment about not
giving a new thread the same name as the old thread (yes I should
probably have added Reposted to the name, or something) made me go
back and search google again. This is what I found: Putting obit
mary sorcha wise site:mudcat.org in the search box no longer
brings up the original thread (and not yet my new thread either),
but is does bring up something else: Page after page of the
original individual messages of the original thread, in the
Printer Friendly format. (by the way, are you familiar with the
site:mudcat.org parameter? It makes google narrow down their
search results to only show URLs from mudcat.org). Now I tried to
check whether the old messages were still there at mudcat itself
in the Printer Friendly version, but no such luck, they are not
there anymore.

It did however prompt another thought: I went back to the first
message posted after the crash, Max's message, and saw that it had
message number 3688363. Given that the messages are numbered
sequentially, it is not surprising that the last message before
the crash is numbered 3688362. Now searching google for "3688362
site:mudcat.org/detail_pf" brings up the last message before the
crash, which is of course there, both in the cache and on Mudcat
itself. But now it gets interesting: Putting the next number
"3688363 site:mudcat.org/detail_pf" in the search box brings up
BOTH Max's message about the crash, and the first of the missing
messages, which of course had the same number - and it is there in
the cache.


What this adds up to, is that some enterprising person (but not
me!!) might recover all the lost messages one by one, using this
method? Well it's a thought!

Now, I wonder if somebody could work up a script to retrieve all those messages....
-Joe-