wellywellwell...
ya sure...
for example...neatojones' e17 info...lost...
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=254256&postcount=1
(http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...0&postcount=96)
just 1 out of countless links to itt that are gone...
no ...actually hold on a sec...
It looks like it was slid back in to tmo....here...
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=27289...
this is the 1st time I've lucked out...so far...
and only because I typed in a search specifically for "updated Instructions for installing E17 by neatojones" which gave a few links including straight here http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=27289
hrm....exactly what did happen when itt shut the lights out?
was some or all of their data merged here??
Is it possible that though the links to itt go to pages that are gone and dead...that the links were simply not redirected to their new locations within tmo? There is hoping. hum.
Bloody loopy...lookin everywhere in the great abyss of the deepity- deep web... and finding it here.
But this is just 1 very small (in this case ...successful) example.
There is a lot of critical work that took people a long time to do... ...misplaced? mislinked? however to call it.

That was just a lucky break tho' ...
the updated wireless link (right below the neatojones e17 itt link) it doesn't have any specific and distinguishing keywords I can bind ...to hunt down where it went...
there are so many links to itt ...especially in the 770, n800, n810 subforums and diablo all the way down...not to mention scattered through applications, devel, alternate operating systems subforums too...and I don't think older posts concerning the n900 escaped.
Most definitely 1st things 1st...These broken links need to be marked with a yellow highlighter
Then an egg hunt to find out where the links may be.....
Then put it in one resource perhaps?....at the very least re-affix the link properly...

Longer this stuff sits like this...the harder it will get...and then it will most definitely be a crying shame....
Just me doing it...would probably take me the rest of my life...sifting through the forums trying to find broken links ...then trying to track down where that specific data may be...and putting a notice of where the real link is in the original posting...
This is something a bit too big for just me...a community effort is needed.
I know many may say.."why ...I'm not interested...I got a n9 or n900 or whatever..and I don't need that old stuff..." Knowledge is power...and the loss of alot of stuff is on the line...and that may include some element of something that was done along time ago that may have relevance for the new thing desired on newer devices....no data is useless or of lower value ....just never know when you need to revisit something old to make something new. Not to mention sooner or later the same nightmare will crawl up to the (now newer) devices (which in the future will be that much older..) and bite everyone who wants to preserve the data then...
I know we got a manpower issue...but we gotta save this stuff...

My best suggestion is to 1st do a giant billboard sticky telling everyone that when they go slumming into the depths of the older posts...anywhere....if they see links try 'em out...if they fail...they can then put a notification of the post containing the damaged link in a specified thread.
That way compiling the damage can at least begin...
it won't be so painfully huge a task...
and then rectifying it won't be a huge titanic effort.