The old forum contains data for years late 1997 through 2004/2005.  Years 1995 through most of 1997 were lost in a drive/backup failure

https://www.lonesomebuzzards.com/cgi-bin/bbs/archive.cgi?search

If you simply want to browse the records the best way is to do a range search by year and selecting, "search for all message in date range".

Thanks,

Alan