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Another very important point with no-deletes is: you can't deny history. You can't, in real-life, take back something you said. The mechanics of digital deletion in centralized systems is a big problem for History. I remember Julian Assange describing a corruption scandal that was essentially erased from History because a digital article by a large media company was deleted, and not replicated fast enough.


Usenet is, once again, a lesson here. Remember cancel messages. Then remember forged cancels. Then remember the people who decided to stop respecting cancel messages. Then remember the discussions about signed cancel messages. And so on. (-:




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