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Found cached pages from the old site - should I repost them?

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archive_rat
Lurker · 12 posts
Thursday, 2:12 AM
long time lurker. i have 9 pages of the old site out of a search engine cache from before january. full posts, comments and all. do i just... paste them here? feels wrong to sit on them but also feels wrong to post them. the comments have names in them.
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marais_mama
Elder · 4,406 posts
Thursday, 6:40 AM
Names in the comments is your answer, cher. Rule one didn't get old just because the pages did.
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DocFenwick
Resident Skeptic · 2,871 posts
Thursday, 9:15 AM
For once I agree with the consensus position. Caches get edited like anything else, and provenance matters even for ghost stories. Send them to the source for verification, not to a message board.
Beau
Bayou Beau
Administrator · the stove
Thursday, 10:02 PM
archive_rat. Do not paste them. Send them through the show line and I will check them against my notebooks like everything else that comes back.

And so it is on the record: two of the nine pages you described to me are not pages I wrote. I want to see those first.

Locked so nobody posts a mirror in the meantime. archive_rat, check the show line voicemail. — Beau

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