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mattteo 11 Jan 19 4.03pm
From years ago? Does anyone know? I tried under the profile page but it only shows the recent messages
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11 Jan 19 4.03pm

From years ago? Does anyone know?

I tried under the profile page but it only shows the recent messages

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Frickin Saweet South Cronx 11 Jan 19 4.16pm
if you can remember a particularly witty retort then the search bar should help.
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if you can remember a particularly witty retort then the search bar should help.

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mattteo 11 Jan 19 4.42pm
I mean more like ALL of them
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11 Jan 19 4.42pm

I mean more like ALL of them

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eagleman13 On The Road To Hell & Alicante 11 Jan 19 5.02pm
Have you tried going into your 'inbox' & then backtracking? Mine lists all of mine going back to 2006(ish) This operation, will make the 'Charge Of The Light Brigade' seem like a simple military exercise.
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On The Road To Hell & Alicante 11 Jan 19 5.02pm

Have you tried going into your 'inbox' & then backtracking? Mine lists all of mine going back to 2006(ish)

This operation, will make the 'Charge Of The Light Brigade' seem like a simple military exercise.

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Midlands Eagle 11 Jan 19 6.12pm
Originally posted by mattteo I tried under the profile page but it only shows the recent messages I assume that you mean posts which some other forum software refers to as messages. If there is a way then I haven't found it which can sometimes be a bit of a pain. If you use the search facility and type in matteo you may come up with some more but it isn't ideal
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11 Jan 19 6.12pm

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Originally posted by mattteo

I tried under the profile page but it only shows the recent messages

I assume that you mean posts which some other forum software refers to as messages.

If there is a way then I haven't found it which can sometimes be a bit of a pain.

If you use the search facility and type in matteo you may come up with some more but it isn't ideal

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mattteo 11 Jan 19 8.09pm
Posts, yes, thanks anyway.
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11 Jan 19 8.09pm

Posts, yes, thanks anyway.

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Stuk Top half 11 Jan 19 9.10pm
You can't. In the busier forums they simply drop off the boards once the capacity of that forum has been reached. Palace talk goes back about 5 years but over 100 pages, General talk goes back about 4 years but less than 30 pages worth. You could try a Google cache search. Optimistic as ever
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Top half 11 Jan 19 9.10pm

You can't. In the busier forums they simply drop off the boards once the capacity of that forum has been reached. Palace talk goes back about 5 years but over 100 pages, General talk goes back about 4 years but less than 30 pages worth.

You could try a Google cache search.

Optimistic as ever

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chateauferret 11 Jan 19 11.40pm
Question is have they been deleted off the database and if so have they been archived somewhere? Just because the software doesn't have the functionality to access them at the web portal doesn't mean a nice administrator armed with a SQL prompt couldn't get them back. There should be a data retention policy that defines how long data should be retained for and when it should be deleted but there's no requirement for it to be any particular period (in a case like this). If we still had thick client newsreaders and sent our messages via NNTP of course your client software would have kept a copy of everything you did locally. I'm not a fan of web applications for a number of reasons, and this lack of control on the client side is one of them. I think news still exists but it's nothing like what it was before these web fora came along and there isn't, and never was, such a thing as alt.fan.crystal-palace (as far as I know). BTW the BBS seems to let me find all posts by a given user going back to the year dot - I just picked a longstanding user there at random and found stuff he'd posted in 2004. And you can get posts by W^H Trolley going back well before that :-) Edited by chateauferret (11 Jan 2019 11.54pm) ============ The Ferret ============
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11 Jan 19 11.40pm

Question is have they been deleted off the database and if so have they been archived somewhere? Just because the software doesn't have the functionality to access them at the web portal doesn't mean a nice administrator armed with a SQL prompt couldn't get them back.

There should be a data retention policy that defines how long data should be retained for and when it should be deleted but there's no requirement for it to be any particular period (in a case like this).

If we still had thick client newsreaders and sent our messages via NNTP of course your client software would have kept a copy of everything you did locally. I'm not a fan of web applications for a number of reasons, and this lack of control on the client side is one of them. I think news still exists but it's nothing like what it was before these web fora came along and there isn't, and never was, such a thing as alt.fan.crystal-palace (as far as I know).

BTW the BBS seems to let me find all posts by a given user going back to the year dot - I just picked a longstanding user there at random and found stuff he'd posted in 2004. And you can get posts by W^H Trolley going back well before that :-)

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Cucking Funt Clapham on the Back 12 Jan 19 10.01am
Originally posted by eagleman13 Have you tried going into your 'inbox' & then backtracking? Mine lists all of mine going back to 2006(ish) And not a single apology for any of them. Wife beating may be socially acceptable in Sheffield, but it is a different matter in Cheltenham
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Clapham on the Back 12 Jan 19 10.01am

Originally posted by eagleman13

Have you tried going into your 'inbox' & then backtracking? Mine lists all of mine going back to 2006(ish)

And not a single apology for any of them.

Wife beating may be socially acceptable in Sheffield, but it is a different matter in Cheltenham

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eagleman13 On The Road To Hell & Alicante 12 Jan 19 10.14am
Originally posted by Cucking Funt And not a single apology for any of them. I have my uses This operation, will make the 'Charge Of The Light Brigade' seem like a simple military exercise.
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On The Road To Hell & Alicante 12 Jan 19 10.14am

Originally posted by Cucking Funt

And not a single apology for any of them.

I have my uses

This operation, will make the 'Charge Of The Light Brigade' seem like a simple military exercise.

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pefwin Where you have to have an English ... 17 Jan 19 5.16pm
have you tried the wayback machine? I've noticed "some editing" does happen as well so whatever you want find may have been deleted. "Everything is air-droppable at least once." "When the going gets tough, the tough call for close air support."
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