If I contribute time in answering questions or solving problems, like with mailing lists still being available to view, something that I intentionally put into

If I contribute time in answering questions or solving problems, like with mailing lists still being available to view, something that I intentionally put into the public domain with the intent of helping people should remain available. Just because a forum exists as a business to someone doesn't mean that the content has no value to the general public. The forum itself has no value, only the only content has value, which is what draws in the traffic to make money in the first place. Call it what most forums are: an ad-supported business. People generate content for the owner for free because they too derive value from the information that others share. The middleman is just a middleman. To not allow that content to be indexed/cached/archived/mirrored whilst making money off of it is pretty scummy in the long-term. There's tons of forums I used to visit whose information is now forever lost, that included a lot of very useful programs for niche bits of kit, which is now otherwise very expensive e-waste.