# Winter of our Missed Content/White Elephant **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [August 13, 2003, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-of-our-missed-content-white-elephant/194891 "2003-08-13T12:55:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tavalla](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tavalla/32/89_2.png) [@tavalla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tavalla)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-of-our-missed-content-white-elephant/194891/1 "2003-08-13T12:55:45Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![eero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/34f0e0/32.png) [@eero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eero)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-of-our-missed-content-white-elephant/194891/2 "2003-08-13T13:27:38Z")
Lost dates were 12-07-01…3-10-02. I don’t recall white elephant sale. ---
**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-of-our-missed-content-white-elephant/194891/3 "2003-08-13T22:49:38Z")
[I want to do a white elephant swap…](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=73107&highlight=White+Elephant) Thread started June 4, 2001. ---
**Author:** ![tavalla](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tavalla/32/89_2.png) [@tavalla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tavalla)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2003, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-of-our-missed-content-white-elephant/194891/4 "2003-08-14T04:59:02Z")
Hm, close in dates, but not the right one… Dammit, I really need to improve my searching skills… ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2003, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-of-our-missed-content-white-elephant/194891/5 "2003-08-14T16:09:31Z")
If searching here doesn’t work, go to [http://boardreader.com/](http://boardreader.com/) and use “SDMB” as one of the search terms. BoardReader is sort of like the Google of message boards. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2003, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-of-our-missed-content-white-elephant/194891/6 "2003-08-14T18:40:41Z")
BoardReader hasn’t been functioning properly recently. A search just on “sdmb” turns up fewer than 500 hits, many of which are from other boards. ---
**Author:** ![tavalla](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tavalla/32/89_2.png) [@tavalla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tavalla)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2003, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-of-our-missed-content-white-elephant/194891/7 "2003-08-15T10:35:13Z")
Nope, I couldn’t find a thing on BoardReader. Oh well, guess I’ll just have to consign it to the Dustbin of History… ---
**Author:** ![Algernon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a183cd/32.png) [@Algernon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algernon)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2003, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-of-our-missed-content-white-elephant/194891/8 "2003-08-15T11:54:41Z")
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.