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Would it be cheaper, easier etc if you kind of, erm, deleted all the posts over say 10 years old?

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Rooners · 09/08/2013 16:12

I seem to remember proffering this suggestion before once in some other discourse...and being shot down but would it, seriously, be a thing worth considering?

It would stop those of us what fret about our entire posting histoire being available to the US&A everyone, forever, from fretting quite so much - and also it would free up a ginormous server or two.

Just wondering really. I mean I like to do it with my own paperwork, from time to time. Does it make sense?

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HelenMumsnet · 09/08/2013 16:18

@Rooners

But seriously it isn't just about that. And I was joking about America.

Tbh, I think all the threads over 10 years old are just Justine and Carrie talking to themselves Grin

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HelenMumsnet · 09/08/2013 16:28

@Rooners

LOL Helen Grin

maybe 5 years would work?

Though a rolling 10 years could start now-ish could it not?

I don't know. I'm the resident luddite so tell me to shut up if I'm talking rubbish - I honestly have no idea how much it costs to store all the shite we talk on a daily basis but I'm sure someone off the Good Housekeeping board would agree with me.

If you haven't used it in over a year, THROW it AWAY! Smile [duster]

I've no idea either re cost. But is that the reason you're asking?Very nice of you and all...

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HelenMumsnet · 09/08/2013 17:22

[quote Rooners]Well, yes it was partly. I notice that when people moan about adverts and so on, Olivia or Justine comes along and says our enormous server needs a team of trained pygmies to keep the cogs turning, and all this, and I thought, well, surely we can afford to chuck about 7 zillion threads about potty training...there is a new one every day, if people want to search.

I don't know. There may well be a groundswell against it if you put it to the teeming masses. But I'd be happy about it Smile

Not sure the potty-training threads are straining our server quite as much as, say, our 100-odd Local sites, though.

And then there's the gin bill, of course...

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HelenMumsnet · 09/08/2013 17:35

@Rooners

Oh goodness I didn't mean to imply that at all Blush

I keep well out of local. I might see someone who knows me Hmm

The gin budget obvs needs ringfencing though...well till next week when I'm sure it'll be slashed, for some reason Grin

Arf.

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