On Mon, 12.10.2009 at 15:23:12 +0000, Matthew Szudzik <mszud...@andrew.cmu.edu>
wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 04:42:44PM +0200, Toni Mueller wrote:
> > archive, whereas, when the forum operator changes his forum software,
> > or shuts down the forum, all past content is simply gone (or as good
> > as).
>
> Not true. Whenever I read an interesting forum post, I save the html
> file to my hard drive for future reference.
Yes and no... finding the "interesting forum post" needs to be done
quickly, before disaster strikes, and it's much more hassle to save the
web page in a way that can be read offline with ease and peace of mind
(web bugs, broken style sheets, java script hell, IFRAMEs etc.pp.,
anyone?). With a mailing list, all of this happens "automatically",
and then there are still MARC and GMANE.
Kind regards,
--Toni++
PS: I also try to save all interesting posts to my local disks, to
be able to re-read these posts later, but it's still a PITA.
