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Unfortunately, the search interface is limited to max. 100 results per query...

Unless our Admins have a solution, you may be better of using Google Advanced Search.
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There were also various prunings, I think mostly of the Tavern and other non-TW forums, over the years including in summer 2004 when we made the move to vBulletin 3 (80k post were removed). I think the admins back then made great efforts to keep TW content, particularly around modding.

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I wonder if there's any interest or scope for preserving the existing database toward the long-term.


Thank you all for your responses.

I would like to ask you all a favor. First, I will explain what I'm looking for and why. I'm a 9/11 researcher. I collect as much info as I can about the 9/11 terrorist attacks and their social significance.

A few weeks ago, a came across this thread started by a long-time user, Tachikaze, explaining how he used to know a 9/11 victim:

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showt...ht=Melissa+doi

In this thread, he starts off saying "I wrote here a while back about my former co-worker, Melissa Doi, and her harrowing experience in the last moments of one of the two towers of the WTC."

...however, no matter how many times I experiment with the advanced search function, I cannot find this earlier thread or post about Melissa Doi, the victim in question. There's only one thread and one post showing up about Melissa Doi -- and it's this same thread of 05-31-2006.

I would like to know if any of you could try to find other threads or posts about Melissa Doi from this forum or any archives you may have access to.

It's specifically because of web rot that I became an obsessive data hoarder. Authentic first-hand accounts of friends and relatives of those killed on 9/11 really are disappearing from the web, despite the assumption that everything on the net stays there forever.

If anyone here sympathizes enough to help me out, i'd truly appreciate it. Thank you so much.