Originally Posted by
oklAAhoma
I don't understand the purpose of your suggestion. If I understand the OP correctly, he read and responded to a post that subsequently disappeared. The OP also quoted the post before it vanished, so he still knows exactly what it said. I don't see how doing a search (on google or on FT) will be of any benefit to him as his questions remain unanswered.
I think you might have inserted issues that were not in my post. I was commenting (or thought that I was) that posts are still in the FT system even if deleted. It was a general comment on how the system works. That was all.
I was not suggesting that the OP use that method to read the post. In fact, the method I outlined would not help to read the post if the text were replaced. Even if text had not been replaced before post deletion, only the first line of the post would still be available.
I thought the OP and others might find it interesting to know that these deleted posts show up. The issues you bring up are not issues that I intended, or believe I implied.