Short of creating an HTML document and copying in all the previous posts, is there any graceful way to salvage content from the SI site?
Among my several PERL scripts, I know I've got ones that can fetch the contents of entire threads, quickly and easily.
However, I'm pretty sure INSP would take a very dim view of my doing so. <g>
So, the approach you're talking about is likely the only workable one.
Do you have PERL by any chance? ;)