Aieeeeee!!

[liralen]

http://slashdot.org/articles/01/12/11/0727218.shtml

I, being the usual self-centered type, searched for Liralen and got 2800 hits!?!?!!

aieee!! The Ghost of Usenet Posts Past is gonna haunt me now...

Comments

Disservice? Hmm...naaaah.

[robotech-master.livejournal.com]

1) Any prospective employer who searches out my comments on USENET is not an employer I would care to work for anyway. Given that if he's that anal about background, he'd probably be just as anal about in-work monitoring and such . . . and anyway, as long as it wouldn't affect how I did my work, what does it matter?

1a) (You can request that your old posts be removed, you know. Though it seems like a shame to me--it's abrogating the historical record of our time, which could be important to people long after we're all dead and gone.)

2) I like to think of my descendents (if I ever have any) being able to find out what their old ancestor was like by finding things I wrote. It's like my own little chunk of immortality.

Re: Disservice? Hmm...naaaah.

[cellio]

(You can request that your old posts be removed, you know. Though it seems like a shame to me--it's abrogating the historical record of our time, which could be important to people long after we're all dead and gone.)

Actually, I didn't know that. Deja made that claim back when, but they didn't actually honor it.

Mind, most of my old posts are fine, and anyway most people won't care. There are just a few where I was being really, really stupid that I'd kind of like to blot out. Don't know if I will, though; I don't really like editing history, either.