How to save forum posts before they are deleted?

[Hooobi]

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

 

[tweakmm]

File > Save As
?

 

[Hooobi]

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

 

[ppdes]

Why would the deals be getting deleted so quick? Are you sure it isn't just the seller deleting after making a deal?

 

[tweakmm]

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?

Yeah, usually a post gets deleted it's because it's a scam or spam.

 

[Hooobi]

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.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Print them to PDF.

 

[EagleKeeper]

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.