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[Timothy Butler]

Hi Dan,


> To be quite honest, I posted some things on that list that I'd be
> quite happy to have disappear from public memory forever :P.
>
> Nonetheless, it'd be a shame to lose it.

	I had the same paradoxical thoughts run through my mind. Actually,  
though, I'll live. I think I'm more regretful of a few flamewars I  
was in over on one of the Debian lists years ago.

	It makes me wonder, in another ten years or so, when most of the  
young politicos running will be ones that have spent years writing on  
electronic lists and such long before they had political aspirations,  
how will anybody win? In twenty years when they grew up with things  
like Facebook being a given, I really wonder. Many of us are pioneers  
who have been on mailing lists for a seeming age (I look back rather  
fondly of joining my first KDE list in 1998, I'm sure some of those  
left here were actually on one even earlier than that), but long term  
archived forums, e-mails and the like are probably a lot more a part  
of the norm for the rest of folks now...

	Should be interesting, eh?

	-Tim


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