I know that Historian/C_cks_ckerMcGee/Idiot et al had scraped and databased CoT when it went semi-offline but could still be accessed for about a year with a DNS spoof. But no idea how to contact him.

Archive.org is semi useless for this because it tends to only archive top level thread bodies and misses many items.

I'd need to feed those messages to an AI to capture the tone, personality, and content of Brice's meanderings.