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How to save forum posts before they are deleted?

Hooobi

Hooobi

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Yesterday, I spotted a good deal on CL and then today when I pulled up the link I had saved to call the seller, the post had been Flagged and Deleted! Luckily I was able to pull it up in my cache on another computer.

Does anyone know a way to save all updates to a forum so that all posts will be preserved regardless of what happens to them after? I was thinking an RSS reader is a good way to keep up, but it won't create a local copy.

Any thoughts?

Hopefully this is the right forum...

TIA
 
Errr... thanks, but I probably should have clarified. I'd like to be sure that a copy is saved automatically, even before I get a chance to check the forum for updates.

For example, if someone posts a good deal on CL, and then someone else flags and deletes it, and I haven't seen it yet, then I'll never know it existed. Is there a way to automatically save a copy of all posts so that I can browse them at a later time, without worrying that some may have gotten deleted in the interim?

TIA
 
Why would the deals be getting deleted so quick? Are you sure it isn't just the seller deleting after making a deal?
 
Originally posted by: ppdes
Why would the deals be getting deleted so quick? Are you sure it isn't just the seller deleting after making a deal?
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Yeah, usually a post gets deleted it's because it's a scam or spam.
 
Nah, I'm looking at real estate deals, and it appears that potential buyers are deleting the posts to cut down on interest.

I spotted one interesting deal, and when I checked back to get the poster's info, it was "flagged" and gone. Later I checked back and the seller had reposted. I asked him in the email, and he said he had no idea why the post had been flagged.

So basically, I'd like a way to save a copy of all posts so that I can search through all of them without having to worry about what might have been deleted when I wasn't looking.
 
Get some type of Spidering S/W that will continually copy the page to your disk.
You can feed it the URL and set the retrieval frequency.
 
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