From: nospam@example.net   
      
   On Sat, 4 May 2024, Steve Hayes wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   When ever I encounter something really good (not that often) I tend to   
   save it or write it down. So I do have blog articles from decades back,   
   saved on my disk.   
      
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