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Need some email/colo service -- recommedations?



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Devers" <cdevers at pobox.com>


> On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Mark J. Dulcey wrote:
>
> > [an excellent overview of the issues surrounding data archiving on both
> >  tape and optical media, and how both offer serious problems]
>
> /me looks back longingly at good old papyrus scrolls
>
> I'd just *love* to know what historians will think of this era 500 or 1000
> years from now. [snip]
> It would be a great irony if our era ends up becoming a black hole in the
> historical record, and all because we thought that things like tapes, cds,
> and digital watches were a pretty neat idea...

Chris,

I'll let you know how it turns out.

Bill "If I can't take it with me, I won't go"(tm) Horne






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