On Sun, 9 Nov 1997, Ken Follet wrote:

> The archive comes with the list, but it can be locked from public eyes,
> for our eyes only. We should discuss this. If it will really inhibit
> discourse then I need advice. I see that it will stop us from getting
> nasty, indecent, sexually implicit, morbid, or illegal. It will also
> leave a record, sort of like the loonies preservation diary for the year
> 2110. As well, when we are serious, there will be a record of the
> serious. If your hard drive crashes you can get the archive back.

I'm in favor of having an archive, at least for us (how would a "lock"
work?).  In the near term, at least, nobody but us will be interested
anyway.  So many megabytes of my own glib ramblings are already available
through DejaNews that I doubt a tiny little private archive will make any
difference.

> What BP will do is allow us to be noisy without
> getting shot at from a majority of lurkers on PL. Already some 290
> people on PL are potentially saving every message we send (Yeah,
> right.).

Yeah, yeah, I'm an electronic pack rat.  With malice toward none, I still
have every message from Preservation-L since the beginning.

> It is having a strange effect on my marriage.  While I lay
> downstairs on the couch responding to this message my wife is upstairs
> writing more messages for me to respond to.

Eeep!  I've been there.

But a while ago, I resigned from all high volume lists.  Contrary to
popular belief, PL is a low volume list.

> Telepathic chickens leave no trace.

Words to live by.

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