Sunday, November 21, 2004
Transcript Backups, Good or Bad?
I was going through a backup of my old homepage, stuff from the days of Spaceports, the "unlimited space" webhost. Most of it was old stuff I was doing before I got into the open source movement. I had old directories from when I was doing websites for friends, working on "Software Multiverse", and the Total Annihilation File Archive Project. Amazing how interest died away with that... Some things aren't forever... which brings me to the topic at hand. I found some old instant messenger transcripts from about three years ago, and I was looking through them. Unfortunately, they were conversations with an ex-girlfriend, after a very difficult period in our friendship... they reminded me why I stopped talking to her.
The thing to think about... how long should chat transcripts be kept, if they should be kept and when they should be deleted. This kind of reminds me of the Watergate scandal back in the 1970's, if you don't have the transcripts, you can't be held accountable for them. Maybe it's time to delete that old stuff? I'm starting to think so... ¶ 9:18 PM
I was going through a backup of my old homepage, stuff from the days of Spaceports, the "unlimited space" webhost. Most of it was old stuff I was doing before I got into the open source movement. I had old directories from when I was doing websites for friends, working on "Software Multiverse", and the Total Annihilation File Archive Project. Amazing how interest died away with that... Some things aren't forever... which brings me to the topic at hand. I found some old instant messenger transcripts from about three years ago, and I was looking through them. Unfortunately, they were conversations with an ex-girlfriend, after a very difficult period in our friendship... they reminded me why I stopped talking to her.
The thing to think about... how long should chat transcripts be kept, if they should be kept and when they should be deleted. This kind of reminds me of the Watergate scandal back in the 1970's, if you don't have the transcripts, you can't be held accountable for them. Maybe it's time to delete that old stuff? I'm starting to think so... ¶ 9:18 PM
