On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 15:47 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 04:45:30PM -0600, Bob Jamison wrote:
I only had trouble with the Orwellian practice that every word we ever type belongs to society, and that it will be Googlecached forever.
Kees had the suggestion of maybe doing an automatic deletion of logs older than 6-months. This is consistent with EFF's advice about limiting document retention, and would also address the concern that the commentary would be around forever.
While I think old logs may still have some use, from the comments in this thread it sounds like the value of a given day's log drops off fairly quickly, so ones older than 6 months may have dropped in usefulness enough that their loss would be a small cost.
While I don't really care that much about this issue, I'd say that lawyers always love not having data, but I'm not sure that is a good thing. When they're trying to make the PBS special "100 years of Inkscape" what will they use for our history? Yes, they'll have a holograph interview with Bryce talking about "the great Cairo change of 2006", but what defines our history?
I'd be for keeping the logs, I don't mind them being searchable either, but I don't care that much either way.
--Ted