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From: Brian
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:04

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On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:10:58 -0400, Wes Groleau
<Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> wrote:

>:-) That's what I used to do, except that I have a waterbed with no 
>"under," so the boxes are all over the house.  My new system enables
>me to start throwing them away a few at a time after making sure they're
>on-line.

Paper records can still exist after hundreds of years. I have serious
concerns about whether digitized records will be able to be read in
the future.

I'm a believer in the socks and suspenders theory. Digitizing records
is good but to me, having digital and paper records is better.

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