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 > <hst...@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). T -- In a world without fences, who needs Windows and Gates? -- Christian Surchi
