OK, I've been pretty successful writing an aussiefrogs 'spider' script, (linux bash) which should give us (text) from 19th October which isn't too bad.

I'll try and recover and archive the renault forum in some sort of meaningful way as a gineapig, then hopefully let it loose on the site.

Saving the info is one thing, but then making meaning of it and forming it in a useful way will be challenging.

here goes!

**NB so far so good... combining (Google, Internet Archive, Bing, Yahoo)
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Performed 11 queries against Live Search.
Adding 21115 URLs to URL queue for complete recovery.

David.

Last edited by vivid; Sun 24 Oct 2010 01:53:PM.