On Wed, Mar 30, 2016, at 19:01, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > Though I'm surprised GoogleGroups would expire that fast. > > Google is the reason I inserted that header -- I started back in the > days when news-servers routinely expired stuff (text groups about monthly > lifespan, the binary groups were expiring at 24 hours). Then along came > Google with the "lifetime availability" threat.
I guess I'm not sure I understand the motive for considering such a thing a "threat". Why do you _care_ if technical discussions about Python are available forever? I mean, it's useful for there to be a record of the discussion that led to making a decision about a PEP, or prior arguments against an idea. Sure, one person's posts being missing doesn't do much to that overall, but I do have to wonder why you care. AIUI, most people's contemporary reasoning for objecting to DejaNews (if "Google" was truly the reason you inserted it, you're a latecomer to the idea) was the supposed exploitation inherent in the fact that it was ad-funded, and most never claimed to care about it being around forever. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list