I've been silent on this thread for now but I feel I should just add my two cents.
If it was our intention to delete ancient posts, the archives wouldn't exist, it would simply be deleted. However, you can trace back to the first non-automated forum post on this database.
http://eqemulator.net/forums/showthread.php?t=2
As you can see, our intention is not to remove that.
Because this is a constantly-changing project, it is the nature of the beast that information will get outdated. But even if something is, there will most likely still be resources that could help solve a problem you may be having that was written for an older version of EQEMu but that can be adapted to a newer version.
For documentation purposes, EQEMu is not and will never be a step-by-step hold-my-hand setup, if such is required you probably shouldn't be running EQEMu. That said, its really not all that difficult to set up EQEMu. Most problems that arise with installation come from ignorance of the documentation. And [b]that[b], my friends, is where the snobby attitude comes from.