retcop

Odd to me that a now shut - down forum doesn't care to allow former members to access its archived data. Highly doubt the info was simply "destroyed". Sorry to hear of your friend's passing.

Thats a failing of the wayback machine, not of the ar15armory forum. As far as the info being destroyed, once it was hacked to the point of no return its very possible that it was unrecoverable, and the space for the armory on the server that was rented was wiped and repurposed for other data. That failing lies at the feet of Neil and Woodsman, and possibly the membership at large since it was known that there were subscriptions tp help pay for server space. I have to wonder though, has something also happened to Neil? I don't remember the exact circumstances of everything that went down with Neil and Woodsman as site admins, whether Neil abandoned it and Woodsman took it over or what.