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Adrahil

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5. I know you mean well here, but....

Thu Mar 12, 2015, 07:34 AM

Mar 2015

The sheers space and expense of archiving emails in this way is godawful Stoopid. Do you know how much carefully climate controlled space will be required to archive emails in paper? And how much time and expense would be related to printing out and forwarding such things to an archivist?

Not to mention that common copier and printer paper is not archival quality... It is cheap, heavily bleached, and acidic. It'll be lucky to last 30 years tops. And the inks are worse.

Yes, there are issues with digital archives, but archiving paper printouts is just NOT a solution. The problem of digital archiving will be overcome in relatively short order, I think. It's just a matter of developing more stable storage mediums, and developing error correction algorithms.

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Watching the repeat of Rachel Maddow. Wow she is ripping apart the State Department. [View all] Brigid Mar 2015 OP

Printouts??! How is that even possible? That's a lot of paper to store. n/t BP2 Mar 2015 #1

That is absolutely insane. still_one Mar 2015 #2

WTF!? I bet good money they still use dot matrix printers. Rex Mar 2015 #3

Or maybe it's about archival longevity and safety frazzled Mar 2015 #4

I know you mean well here, but.... Adrahil Mar 2015 #5

This is the Federal Government we are talking about here Lurks Often Mar 2015 #7

I think you are well meaning too frazzled Mar 2015 #8

OK... let's go over this. Adrahil Mar 2015 #9

I have all of my important documents stored... meaculpa2011 Mar 2015 #6