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From time to time, the forum gets a clean up and old posts get removed. I’d also suspect that back in the (really) early days, just switching hosts for the forum could result in old posts not migrating over for various reasons.
In addition to there being obvious positives and my agreement with everything @SeekerOfKnowledge has said above, there are some negatives for me that’ve been very difficult. The OP’s excellent question reminded me of something I wrote about ten years ago, and still holds true:
“I mentioned [to...