why bother replying at all?

T

Travis Newbury

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?
 
T

Toby Inkster

Travis said:
"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.
 
H

Hywel Jenkins

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?
 
G

Greg Schmidt

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)?
 
D

dorayme

From: "Travis Newbury said:
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
 
T

Toby Inkster

Hywel said:
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?
 
W

William Hughes

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...
 

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