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> I will say that the vast vast majority of these sites (unfortunately I can't disclose the number) have not received edits or even visits for more than two yea
by dwheeler 6y ago
> I will say that the vast vast majority of these sites (unfortunately I can't disclose the number) have not received edits or even visits for more than two years
I'm having a hard time understanding why that would justify deleting that information forever. If anything, that suggests that providing static access would be enough and nearly zero-cost. Storage costs are a fraction of what they were.
I do a lot of searching for computer-related historical information, e.g., looking for rationales of "why something happened". Once information is destroyed it's often impossible to recover. No one might look at it for 30 years, and then there's only one retrieval but it was an important retrieval.
We've had a tremendous loss of recent information. This isn't the only example, but it's an important one. I'd like to see information retained, not lost.