Cool find, Rachel.
Just for giggles and grins, I put in RFF's forum URL to see what the Wayback Machine would find.
What a surprise, it's got RFF (partially) archived way back to 2003. Look's like Rob single handedly kept the TAR forum going for the first two years, with not much if any spoiling. Things turned around in 2005 when spoiling was the order of the day, and still is today. Not all the pages are archived, but it's funny seeing the old member postings (and names). It truly was another era back then.
I laughed out loud at Rob's 2003 forum topic "The Future of TAR".
If only he knew back then what we know now.
Try it yourselves, just go to
http://archive.org/web and enter the RFF forum URL
http://forum.realityfanforum.com then select the year and go "back to the future".