I really wish I had the option of deactivating my account, if I wanted it.
I understand that point of view as I have such
inactive accounts by choice that still exist there.
Sometimes, they'll wake up and send a mail ...
( that goes directly to the junk folder after marking them once? )
You understand too, I' sure the nearly technical
reason for forums doing this, which o0o gave us,
which is that old threads would lose the posts of
deleted accounts and end up unreadable. It's the
price of permanence of what is happening in PDF.
When I was
younger-on-Internet, it used to bother
me too not being able to sever the link entirely but
after a while I mellowed to the idea that as I had
joined & left those fora of my very own will and was
not ashamed of my presence there in any way, maybe
the whole thing was more akin to an old flame, friend
or boss calling back after viewing mementos of your
time together because ... let's face it,
they haven't had much better since?
That's the way that that time machine of exchanges
that connectivity brought us works and stays alive
almost a survival mechanism as is natural selection.
Besides, if people and electrons are actively trying to
preserve those times when I was right before the rest
and proved it (
the majority of my work, oeuf corse 
* ) ,
the only risk is to my sense of humility and what's left
of it won't be affected by it than my body by neutrinos?
So 2 conclusions here :
_ I'm a weird chap with a funky freaky sense of humour ;
_ We should learn to treat our web presence as permanent
and impress upon it the same dignity that I assume we
all do in our daily real lives which will avoid E-remorses.
Not much help for the trolls, flamers, haters and idiots, I know!
Hey, we're all limited in the way we can make the world better.
It's like that!
And remember, if Internet is disappointing, there's always the
outside with real folks?
Have the greatest of days there all, Tay.
* Ha! Let's be realistic over humble here, the very very -à la Trump-
near entirety of my work. In fact, I'll contend that by rarity as well
as by contrast, my errors are just about historical in magnitude . . .
so that's lets face it, I'm always on top?
