Well, the TFP isn't as durable as a journal in your bookshelf. I do believe there was a point at which most older posts from the TFP were dropped from the archive, wasn't there? History here is only as durable as Halx's server.
I can go to Google Groups and search up things I wrote 15 years ago in old Usenet newsgroups, and that archive also seems like it'll be there forever. But really, only as long as Google chooses to keep archiving it and keep the archive connected to the net.
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