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Step 1: We only need to archive the genuinely good content.

Step 2: It will take a long time to look through all this content and determine which parts deserve keeping.

Step 3: We will inevitably leave out something that someone else thinks is worth keeping anyway.

Step 4: Let's just archive everything.

It's basically that. Yes, when saving everything we'll save a lot of trash and utterly garbage, spam and all that shit... But the things we would be risking to lose if we didn't save everything, they are and will be so much important. To save what is really important, you have to save everything.

And actually, spam is quite interesting to some people. It certainly gives a flavour of what early-2000s internet was like, and what happens when spam filters aren't good.

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