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Hey, why do people do this?

"Note: The author of this message requested that it not be archived.
This message will be removed from Groups in 6 days (Jun 9, 2:22 am)."

What benefit is it to the group if you don't archive your reply? How
will others search for answers if you remove your reply 6 days after
you enter it?

What makes your reply so important that you want someone to see it
right now, but so unimportant that you don't want someone to see it in
6 months?

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Travis Newbury wrote:

> "Note: The author of this message requested that it not be archived.
> This message will be removed from Groups in 6 days (Jun 9, 2:22 am)."
>
> What benefit is it to the group if you don't archive your reply?

Use a real newsreader -- then you can set it to archive messages for
however long you like.

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In article <> ,
says...
> Travis Newbury wrote:
>
> > "Note: The author of this message requested that it not be archived.
> > This message will be removed from Groups in 6 days (Jun 9, 2:22 am)."
> >
> > What benefit is it to the group if you don't archive your reply?
>
> Use a real newsreader -- then you can set it to archive messages for
> however long you like.

Is it practical for an offline newsreader to archive posts for 20 years?

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Hywel

Kill the Crazy Frog
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On Thu, 02 Jun 2005 18:29:49 +0100, Toby Inkster wrote:

> Travis Newbury wrote:
>
>> "Note: The author of this message requested that it not be archived.
>> This message will be removed from Groups in 6 days (Jun 9, 2:22 am)."
>>
>> What benefit is it to the group if you don't archive your reply?
>
> Use a real newsreader -- then you can set it to archive messages for
> however long you like.

And if I go on vacation for a week, so that the post has expired both
from my news provider's queue and from Google? Or if I, for whatever
reason, don't realize that I'm interested in the post until some later
date (e.g. for all those people who will discover this group a week or a
month or a year from now)?

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Trawna Publications http://trawna.com/

> From: "Travis Newbury" <>
> Subject: why bother replying at all?
>
> Hey, why do people do this?
>
> "Note: The author of this message requested that it not be archived.
> This message will be removed from Groups in 6 days (Jun 9, 2:22 am)."

There could be lots of reasons. Some may be quite personal. Deep are the
emotions surrounding alt.html. May I suggest you study some of the Greek
Tragedies. There is Shame and Humiliation, there is Revenge and Spite and
well, it goes on and on...

dorayme

Hywel Jenkins wrote:

> Is it practical for an offline newsreader to archive posts for 20 years?

For a small number of non-binary groups, on modern hard drives -- why not?

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Contact Me ~ http://tobyinkster.co.uk/contact

Toby Inkster wrote:
> Hywel Jenkins wrote:
>
>>Is it practical for an offline newsreader to archive posts for 20 years?
>
> [...] on modern hard drives [...]

The kind that breaks easily, you mean?

On Thu, 2 Jun 2005 19:27:22 +0100, in alt.html Hywel Jenkins
<> wrote:

> In article <> ,
> says...
> > Travis Newbury wrote:
> >
> > > "Note: The author of this message requested that it not be archived.
> > > This message will be removed from Groups in 6 days (Jun 9, 2:22 am)."
> > >
> > > What benefit is it to the group if you don't archive your reply?
> >
> > Use a real newsreader -- then you can set it to archive messages for
> > however long you like.
>
> Is it practical for an offline newsreader to archive posts for 20 years?

Despite two hard drive crashes, I still have messages in my Agent database from
the early 90s...

Leif K-Brooks wrote:
> Toby Inkster wrote:
>
>> [...] on modern hard drives [...]
>
> The kind that breaks easily, you mean?

That's what backups are for.

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Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
Contact Me ~ http://tobyinkster.co.uk/contact

In article <>,
says...
> On Thu, 2 Jun 2005 19:27:22 +0100, in alt.html Hywel Jenkins
> <> wrote:
>
> > In article <> ,
> > says...
> > > Travis Newbury wrote:
> > >
> > > > "Note: The author of this message requested that it not be archived.
> > > > This message will be removed from Groups in 6 days (Jun 9, 2:22 am)."
> > > >
> > > > What benefit is it to the group if you don't archive your reply?
> > >
> > > Use a real newsreader -- then you can set it to archive messages for
> > > however long you like.
> >
> > Is it practical for an offline newsreader to archive posts for 20 years?
>
> Despite two hard drive crashes, I still have messages in my Agent database from
> the early 90s...

Not for every group, though.

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Hywel

Kill the Crazy Frog
http://www.petitiononline.com/crzyfrg/