[Paul_Denton]

Cool how did you do that? And what does FWIW mean?

[Slings and Arrows]

I learned it from Darksheare:

Click on the reply button for any post on the thread with the deleted post, and when the URL for replying appears in the address bar, replace the number of the post you're replying to with the number of the post you want to recover. For example, when clicked to make this reply, the url was

http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=1498911%2C69

If I changed that to

http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=1498911%2C19

I would be telling FR's server that I was replying to post 19 (the racist garbage), and post 19 would appear as the text of the OP. It doesn't always work, but usually.

FWIW = For What It's Worth