Any monk with a strong view on the persistence of conversations in the CB should be aware that whatever is said might end up cached by Google, and thereby not only recorded for far longer than 1 hour (as per CBHistory) but also showing up in Google search results.

By way of example - I was talking the other day about a BNF for ANSI SQL, one thing led to another, and tye coined the name sqltidy¹. Fast forward a few days, I'm still thinking about the topic, on a whim decide to search for "sqltidy", just in case, and lo - there is my conversation, frozen in time as part of Google's cache, courtesy of thepen.

Not a big deal this time, but it made me glad I hadn't said anything I might regret (like three stooges impersonations, nyuk nyuk nyuk²).

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¹presumably a variant of /(?:perl|html)tidy/

²oops

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