Re: deletion of forums: problems and adjustment

Posted by dandv on
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Why-are-Certain-Forums-and-Topics-suddenly-scheduled-for-deletion-tp4131246p4719165.html

I've been using Nabble to archive many mailing lists of open-source software: Catalyst, MojoMojo, Markdown etc. The point of a mailing list *archive* is to store messages. This "feature" of Nabble deleting messages it thinks are obsolete, is simply unacceptable. Archives exist so that people can search for their questions. If nobody saw thread X in the past 6 months, so what? Someone may search for it tomorrow.

What is the reason behind deleting topics? Why destroy knowledge? Text storage is extremely cheap. I'll happily donate $200 for some extra hard drives in your RAID setup, that will store messages for 10 years, just to see this automatic deletion removed.

Automatic deletion puts Nabble in the same category as Wikipedia's deletion spree of open-source software articles, and makes it as bad as IMDB, which deletes discussion threads older than some number of months.

I've read the official justification, but honestly, it doesn't make any sense to delete "inactive" topics, as I've explained above.

Please, reconsider this practice.