Responding to merlyn's expectations of the status of CB content, "I expect that my CB chat will be transitory, viewed by the audience that I expect is there (as seen by a glance to "other users") and then disappear into the ether."

If you happen to be chatterboxing when google spiders perlmonks your words will be immortalized in google's cache.

Update: Updated the cache link since pages in google's cache eventually expire, point still being that CB comments may persist outside of perlmonks and be accessible to the wide world for some time.