[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.
+