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Date:	Sun, 15 Aug 2004 11:59:24 PDT7
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: CD Longevity

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Perhaps like many of you, I've been putting a lot of reliance into the
medium of CDs, for storage, backup, etc. It is quite possible this
reliance has been misplaced. I am thinking of the (to date) 3 monthly
SCOUG CDs from 2000 that have become unreadable, rather than the bad
batch of July '04 SCOUG CDs, which _may have_ been due to some failure
in their burning.

Check out this short piece + User Reports:

http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/7751

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I don't see why this would not also apply to DVDs, where the data
capacity would result in a much greater loss. When you think about
this, the implications for archival storage of all kinds of important
material is potentially grim.

Jordan

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