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Bada bing Oliver Cromm bada bang:
>
> If I meet you in the corner café and we talk, my words vanish instantly,
> and you may be the only person ever having heard them. If I post with
> X-No-Archive, my words are accessible for several months and may be read
> by thousands of people and land in dozens of private archives.
> Accordingly, I choose my words with greater care if I do that than if I
> talk to you in the corner café.
>

Very sensible, but that doesn't correlate very tightly to the use
of (X-)No-Archive or Usenet. The words in many posts were more likely chosen
with beer than with care.

> If using No-Archive casts doubts on a person, so does speaking to people
> without constantly having a camera running and putting all the
> recordings on the Web.
>

I'll have to disagree with this. Using (X-)No-Archive is an
explicit and overt act designed to put a limited shelf life on a
statement. Carrying a camera or other recording device for the
express purpose you mention is an explicit act designed to
capture a conversation for non-trivial time period. Opposing
actions to override different defaults.

Mike "besides, it doesn't work" Yetto
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