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[H. S. Teoh]

On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 08:07:47PM -0500, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> On Fri, 09 Mar 2012 19:58:37 -0500, H. S. Teoh
> <hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx> wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 07:24:34PM -0500, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> >>Seriously, though, I think Andrej sometimes quotes *nothing* (no
> >>offense for picking on you Andrej), and couple that with the
> >>newsgroup's seemingly random decision to start a new thread, or put
> >>a reply at the same level, I sometimes have no idea what he's
> >>talking about :)
> >[...]
> >
> >You guys should just use a threading mail reader. Like mutt. :-P :-P
> >(Though Ary's post didn't make sense to me either, because I'd
> >deleted the parent post already. Ah well. The joys of impersonal
> >online communication...)
> 
> You should not delete old posts :)  I find it invaluable for searching
> for old discussions sometimes (I use opera with google-like
> searching).
[...]

While I agree with you on principle, after having accumulated YEARS of
archives for several high-volume mailing lists in the past I'm starting
to doubt the value of doing it. Sometimes the signal-to-noise ratio is
just too low to justify archiving *everything*. So I usually only save
threads that I find interesting and has lasting value and delete the
rest (esp. since there's an online archive for it anyway).


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