# How long are messages archived? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 15, 2000, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-are-messages-archived/45766 "2000-12-15T17:08:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2000, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-are-messages-archived/45766/1 "2000-12-15T17:08:47Z")
And what is the plan? The reason I ask is because I fully expect the Dope to still be around in 4 years, and it would be fun to be able to go back to this year’s election threads. So…will we be able to? stoid ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2000, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-are-messages-archived/45766/2 "2000-12-15T19:01:52Z")
Oh no. We’re only archiving the _pro_-conservative threads. In fact, all the others should all be gone in 5…4…3…2… Dammit! That “Delete Liberal Nonsense” button _still_ doesn’t work. Seriously though, it’ll probably depend on what and when we do, if anything, about our hardware situation. I don’t see any of the election stuff disappearing any time soon though. If we were gonna mass delete anything, there’s a lot of fluff that’ll go first. Now, don’t you have a plane to Canada you need to catch? ---
**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2000, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-are-messages-archived/45766/3 "2000-12-15T19:52:50Z")
Hey, Unc: Reread the OP. Find any partisanism there? Anything which denigrates the Republican Party, or conservatives in general? Anything at all? Neither do I. So why do you feel the need to respond with a couple jibes of your own, just because it was **Stoidela** who asked the question? Yeesh. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2000, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-are-messages-archived/45766/4 "2000-12-15T22:07:22Z")
**Gadarene** , **UncleBeer** did not, in fact, see a need to post that liberal-bashing statement. He posted it because he thought it would be funny. In fact, I would say that he was right: It _was_ funny. Lighten up, ok? ---
**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2000, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-are-messages-archived/45766/5 "2000-12-15T22:24:32Z")
Wasn’t so much the liberal-bashing, **Chronos** –I’ve got no problem with good-natured political humor. It was the unnecessary swipe at **Stoidela** herself, though she had posted an utterly inoffensive question, to which I objected. Somewhat akin to Jack Dean Tyler posting an innocuous question in GQ about, say, high blood pressure, and someone popping in to ridicule him about circumcision. I prefer civility, if it’s all the same to you. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2000, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-are-messages-archived/45766/6 "2000-12-16T01:30:31Z")
I appreciate the attempt. But I’ve grown accustomed to the fact that there is nothing I can say, no matter how innocuous, that will not be greeted by someone bashing me personally. In fact, I don’t even have to say anything…these days, I find myself brought up in threads I haven’t posted a word in. I just laugh at it. What they don’t realize is that the more obsessed they become with trying to bring me down, the more power they give me to drive them crazy. But I do appreciate the effort, no matter how futile. stoid ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2000, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-are-messages-archived/45766/7 "2000-12-16T03:35:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Stoidela \* > **I just laugh at it. What they don’t realize is that the more obsessed they become with trying to bring me down, the more power they give me to drive them crazy.** You forgot the **“MUAHAHAHAHAHAAAHAAAA!!!”** at the end 😉 Sorry, merely joking. No way am I getting involved in this. I’m glad I’m not an American right now 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2000, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-are-messages-archived/45766/8 "2000-12-16T04:41:25Z")
Aw, Clog’ems, not all us 'Mericans are nuts. Just most of us.