Very related: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5305073" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5305073</a> A tech from Posterous got in contact with members of ArchiveTeam via Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/vincentchu/status/308467595416334336" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/vincentchu/status/308467595416334336</a> and then joined IRC: <a href="http://pastebin.com/YB0emvnY" rel="nofollow">http://pastebin.com/YB0emvnY</a><p>TL;DR Posterous and ArchiveTeam are working on a way to backup Posterous before the deadline without accidentally DDoS'ing it.