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In dealing with bulletin boards in the past, some person would get upset, and delete everything of theirs. This would stop that.

But, I think it has more to do with the old part of the block chain becoming solid and non-changing and thus making it all easier to work with. Especially when a new server comes online and has to verify the entire block chain.