Traumwind - why keep the info in a date heirarchy?

garret has
been thinking about weblog archives. for myself, subject is first, date second. so why keep the info in a date heirarchy?
He has a point there. I never use or even see all those archive links down this page. Rather I had a search for them, but I don't, yet.
I was thinking about re-visiting them all and categorizing them Cinderella-style. The good ones go into my non-date based website (alà a Wiki-space), the medicore ones get sorted into categories and the bad ones, well we may want to weed those out over time ;)
John Belmonte, the man behind the Lua-users.org Wiki summariezed this nicely:
I'd like to mention a wonderful property of (most) wiki implementations that may not be entirely obvious. They forget the past. Although an edit history is maintained for each page, it fades out over time. So deleted mistakes, unkind words, and useless material really disappear unless someone explicitly acts to revive or archive them. This is quite a different concept from the mailing list or newsgroup where, in the case of a public forum, every word may likely be archived until the end of civilization. An interesting article related to this subject is In Defense of the DELETE Key [2].

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