However, times have changed.
Disk storage is cheap and there are systems that attempt to archive the spew from net news.
So next time you get mad and think about composing a flame, imagine it being archived off somewhere and comming back to haunt you. I have not found anything embarrasing that I wrote in the archives yet, but I did find a book review I wrote of William Gibson's Count Zero archived on a system in Sweeden. This book review is ten years old. That seems like a long time ago. My son was only two then.