Hi,

Lucie wrote:
> However, having a TTL on everything can hinder people looking for help
> on BBS and other channels.  If someone posts a solution using the
> pastebin service with a TTL, someone later down the road would just
> hit a 404 when looking for answers to the same issue.

I've been bit more than once by a search turning up a mailing list or
forum post discussing what's probably my problem only to find vital
information missing my being elsewhere.  Sometimes a mailing list post
points to a long-dead forum.  Other times, a pastebin has killed the
content.

A pastebin is useful for IRC, but for a mailing list or forum, place the
data alongside the prose, e.g. a (MIME) attachment.  Let them live or
die together.

-- 
Cheers, Ralph.

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