In a vacuum, the OP's point would be valid, though (as jdporter said), not exactly novel. Anything you write may survive for the ages and continue to be helpful (or harmful) far longer than you expected. Google Groups has Usenet posts of mine back to 1995, including some I'm proud of and some that would make me wince. On the other hand, many online forums to which I've contributed have disappeared entirely or lost all their data in crashes at least once. So you never know.

However, this post doesn't exist in a vacuum, and in the context of the other recent thread about enemies and personal down-voting, it comes off (in my opinion) as an alternate way to say, "Be nicer (to me)," by adding, "because your words may be remembered for a long time."

Aaron B.
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In reply to Re^3: "Yellow Pages" by aaron_baugher
in thread "Yellow Pages" by locked_user sundialsvc4

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