I debated whether this belonged here or in MPSIMS; it’s a two-part question, with one part applicable to each forum. Mods, move it if I’ve put it in the wrong place.
The first part of the question is the Winter of Missed Content. We lost content in that little episode - date-wise, when does the loss start and end? December 7, 2001, according to one search I found was the start, but when did everything start back up again?
And, secondly, was there a White Elephant Exchange run during that period?
If searching here doesn’t work, go to http://boardreader.com/ and use “SDMB” as one of the search terms. BoardReader is sort of like the Google of message boards.
I suspect that BoardReader might have purged a lot of their older records. In the process of doing searches there over the course of the last month or so, I’ve noticed that the only “hits” returned are from 2003.