"The first main problem with Usenet:
'Is that Usenet has so little memory. If we ranked Internet services in terms of persistence of knowledge the order would be like talk, IRC, Usenet, e-mail, FTP, HTTP. It particularly bothers me that people archive their e-mail but don't bother to archive their News. We originally thought that most sites would permanently archive all Usenet traffic ever recieved!'"

Tom Truscot -- original designer of Usenet