jducoeur

I understand everyone being unhappy were LJ to go away, but it's not clear to me what the value of archiving one's LJ postings would be. Do people imagine having the time someday to sit and re-read their old postings? Is it just a habit of the back-it-up reflex? Could there be some kind of Resurrection Day millenial hope that a new server system could raise up all the old archives from the dead into a new life, reborn and free from sin? Have there been posts of great literary value mixed in amongst the friendly chat, recipes, gripes, and grunts that make up the bulk of what I've been reading here?

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In the future, we will want to "look up old entries" in order to...

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