RE: Opinions, please. Keep entire archive or toss old?

OK this is making me really curious.  Will people please post a
comprehensive list of the posts they are embarrassed about?  I'd like to
go back and take a look!!!

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: bryan rasmussen [mailto:rasmussen.bryan@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 1:37 PM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re:  Opinions, please. Keep entire archive or toss old?
>
> do not toss.
>
> after all if it were to the benefit of those that asked beginner
> questions at some point in the list's history it would also be to the
> detriment of those who asked smart questions or contributed smart
> answers.  Not to mention that someone might be linking to some early
> smart answer and so forth.
>
> If you did drop it would these people next go after the internet
> archive, not sure if they have the list archived but they might.
>
> This is one of the worst suggestions I have heard regarding a
> technical matter from a technical community in a long period of time,
> and I can only assume whoever made this suggestion knows it, or it
> would have been made to the list.
>
> And that I say this, a guy who has probably asked some of the
> stupidest things ever asked anywhere should cause these credit
> boosting folks to reconsider IMHO.
>
> My mouth is filling up with bile and venom at the moment, I probably
> shouldn't say any more.
>
> aaarrrrrggghhh,
>  Bryan Rasmussen
>
> On 10/12/05, Mulberry Technologies List Owner
> <xsl-list-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Friends --
> >
> > I have recently received two apparently unrelated requests to remove
> > the first several years of the XSL-List archive from the server.
> >
> > Both were from people who seemed to be embarrassed that they had
> > asked beginner questions and wanted to be known for their more
> > advanced contributions. One also implied that since the practice of
> > XSL has changed over the years the older postings are misleading.
> >
> > My personal inclination is to reject the requests, and the premise
> > behind them. We all start every new technology as beginners, and
> > those of us who know many things were beginners many times.
> That's not
> > something to be embarrassed about, in my opinion. I also do not see
> > that the practice of XSL has really matured that
> dramatically; people
> > are still asking many of the questions we were discussing in 1998.
> >
> > But before making such a decision, I thought I'd ask the list for
> > your opinions. (I would be willing to lop off the first few years
> > if we really don't want them; I am not willing to edit the archive
> > in any more manual or judgement-based way. I will not, for example,
> > remove postings by people who don't want their names in the
> archive.)
> >
> > So, what do you think?
> >
> > -- Tommie
> > --
> >
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