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quoted 10 lines From: John/Slackonomics <slack@slackonomics.com>

> From: John/Slackonomics <slack@slackonomics.com> > On Apr 3, 2005, at 12:05 PM, Eric Hill wrote: >>> Yeah right, like the list doesn't live in the past enough as it is. >>> >>> "Hey look, someone posted a bad review of "Amber" in 1995!" > > > So you think archiving is a bad thing? What if you're wanting to go > back to find a post about an album you're looking for? Or what if you > want to find someone who no longer posts and you can't find their name?

This is exactly what I'm saying. Nobody should ever archive anything, for any reason, ever. Nobody. Archiving is wrong, no matter what the reason, and everyone should think exactly like me. That said, none of those situations have arisen for me. I do remember some occasion where I'd searched for some IDM-related thing and Google came back with at least 5 different archives.

quoted 1 line It seems to me that a searchable archive is a great idea.

> It seems to me that a searchable archive is a great idea.

It seems to me that letting the past be the past has its own benefits. Of course, nobody's stopping you from creating a searchable archive within your chosen email client. -e --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org