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@@ -200,3 +200,8 @@ between being "financially rewarded with charitable donations" and
       [sotto voice: and to be honest the traffic volume is so high and it's
       of such specialist interest that nobody's going to be looking who isn't
       genuinely interested :) ]
+      An additional very important reason: we need proof of prior art,
+      in case some idiotic patent troll tries to patent ideas they happen
+      to get a glimpse of.  By keeping the full and complete discussion
+      on recorded **timestamped** archives such efforts may be invalidated.
+