From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Mon, 29 Apr 2024 15:27:59 -0000 (UTC), oldernow    
   wrote:   
      
   >I love the USENET has a sort of "built in time scrubbing"   
   >of articles. Sure, one can bend over backward to preserve   
   >articles locally, some servers have longer retention   
   >periods, blah blah. But in the more minimalist usage   
   >case I favor, I'm glad to see past articles/threads going   
   >"over the dam".   
   >   
   >That's in contrast to the web, where if I want to have a   
   >blog / phlog / gemlog, that typically means maintaining   
   >files somewhere, and possibly an index thereto. And   
   >there's a tendency to fear removing older items "just in   
   >case" they come in handy, "so as not to screw up others'   
   >linking thereto", etc., etc.   
   >   
   >I just plain don't like feeling at the mercy of that.   
      
   And I hate it when pages that I linked to on some of my glog posts are   
   taken down, because some of those blog posts I still refer to people.   
      
   And I love it when I find a piece of information that someone asked   
   about in a Usenet newsgroup 20 years ago, and can post an answer, even   
   if the4y may not still be around to read it; someone else who reads it   
   may know them, or what happened to them.   
      
      
   --   
   Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa   
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   Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com   
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