I tried the Wayback Machine on our forum as much of te old stuff was lost to spammers. Here is a lot of it - maybe even a copy of a lost topic or two.
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.countryplans.com (http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.countryplans.com)
Click the dates for the time period you want to see then follow the links. Most I tried worked.
The old lost "Indigenous Housing" thread is there.
http://web.archive.org/web/20070704011909/www.countryplans.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1135060015