Forbidden Forum?

I just tried to access the old Fly forums from a couple of years ago and got a message that I didn't have permission and it was forbidden. Does this mean we've lost access to this resource? If so, a lot of good information from those days when many more of us were struggling with the intricacies of Fly II has been lost. Guess we couldn't really expect that AVSIM would keep those old forums around forever.Don