In my previous post, I claimed that Micah Wright had altered, nay, deleted a thread on his Delphi forum that I've been linking to for several days now. That was uncharitable of me. Any number of things could have happened to that thread. Technical difficulties... a slip of the keyboard... sabotage by insidious right-wing killbloggers... Who can say? Hell, at this point it looks like his whole forum is down, so obviously something catastrophic has happened. But I shouldn't have jumped to conclusions about it, and for that I apologize.
By way of reconciliation, I present this restored copy of the thread in question, which some enterprising historian has had the forethought to save: Page 1 and Page 2. What was lost is now found! (Or 29 out of the 35 posts in that thread are, anyway.)
Consider this my gift to you, Micah. No need to thank me.
Correction: The forum is fine, apparently. Only that particular thread was affected... curious. Well, my mistake!
Addendum: And here's the very last post to that Delphi thread. The mysterious accident that caused the whole thread to disappear must have occurred right after this was posted. Weird!
Another addendum: I'm informed, by Micah Wright and others, that posting reader mail on your Web page is a no-no. To which I say: oh, really?
Posted by Jim Treacher at June 16, 2004 06:48 PM