It was a FReeper (Buckhead) that first exposed the documents as a forgery, and ultimately led to Dan Rather being fired.
Imagine what might have happened if a moderator's reflexive action had been to delete the article because it was identified as a hoax.
Yes, I remember the Buckhead days well and that is a great point.
Along those same lines, we now have no record of all the fake stories that were planted here. The issue of fake news stories generated by leftists is a pretty big deal, but now it’s like it never happened. If we wanted to go back and make the forensic case against the left for doing this, we couldn’t do so using FR’s archives. We’d have to go outside to leftist outfits like Google, using their cache from their crawlers.