Quote Originally Posted by xes View Post
blackout's on there (use the wayback machine) But I'm being blocked by robots or something. Maybe a clevererer persanoid can gety in.
basically search engines only catalogue information that the webdevelopers give them permission to. The permissions are specified in a file called robots.txt. the wayback site only saves the information which search engines have permission to spider. for some reason boa has the portal blocked - hence the error.

even without that error i doubt such a site would work though simply because the forum is built using server side scripting and a database - neither of which web-surfers (which is all wayback basically is) have direct access to. so without the direct access, it's impractical to effectively save message board forum data

does any of that make sense?