There is a way to possibly recover several posts (from brain.hastypastry.net) on your own, Wittesea. It will be "cached" or archived copies.

Go to: google.com

Type this is the search bar: site:brain.hastypastry.net username

Where I've written username, type your BT username.

When the results display, click on the Cached links next to where it states: Supplemental Result.

(I've tried using the WayBack Machine for the most current BT forums, and, so far, that approach hasn't been productive. The WayBack Machine has, however, resulted in also being able to read posts from the neuro-mancer BT forums. It is time-consuming, yet I missed a lot since I came to BT years after it started.)