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Title: Archives
Date: 2019-10-28
Listening To: Jazz Jackrabbit OST

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Talk has been going around about archiving documents on Gopher, and the
ability to disappear from gopher will taking everything down.[0][1][2] To be
honest, my opinion is a rather simple one, so I won't waste your time with a
long-winded explination. The words should speak for themselves.

* If the data is personal in nature, such as thoughts or diary-like entries,
  then it shouldn't be archived unless explicitly encouraged.
* If the data is factual in nature, such as tips for software, or hardware
  information, then it should be archived unless explicitly discouraged.


Opt-in if personal, opt-out if factual. This means that information that could
help others on a technical level isn't lost, but someone can easily remove
that really old phlog post that might not sit well with them anymore.

And yes, there _is_ a grey area even with this sort of monochrome outlook, but
there always will be, and one has to choose what to do about those in the end.
However, they'll be fewer and far between compared to those with a definitive
answer.

That's just my ¥2, though.

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[0]: gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/0/%7esolderpunk/phlog/the-individual-archivist-and-ghosts-of-gophers-past.txt
[1]: gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/0/%7eyargo/clog/xu-gopher-archive-civil-rights.txt
[2]: gopher://sdf.org/1/users/sysdharma/phlog/./2019.10.28