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.)