hi,
today I stumbled into the new GO message board, where it looks like the archives of old posts have been restored...
http://gamingoutpost.newmediaone.net/discussions/
the uri is not permanent, it seems like it will change (http://gamingoutpost.newmediaone.net/discussions/index.php?showtopic=81375) to just gamingoutpost.com/discussions sometime soonish
(ie, links made to the newmedia domain should be considered temporary)
old links to circa 2001 messages currently return a "this message is stored elsewhere" page, with a link to the restored message on the newmediaone domain
I was just going to add a note to this effect over on the thread in Contacts that mentioned this. However, you seem to have covered it fairly well.
Thanks.
--M. J. Young