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>>Thanks for the reply, but it was actually Scott Bracken who wrote the message you replied to. In one day's use of the One-Off CD Shop's account I used to use he managed to confuse at least three or four people <G>. Oh, darn. I just went back to the thread where it appeared, and didn't check the UID to see if it was yours. Notify Scott, will you please? >> Do you (or does anyone) really care if the things last more than 10 or 20 years? That's still longer than any other medium can really claim… microfiche fades, even sitting in a drawer; tape loses it's magnetic signal and its tensioning, paper isn't electronic to begin with… You know that, and I know that, but it (20 years or 100 years) seems to make a big difference to those who are looking for archival permanence. Kinda funny, that anything over 10 years wouldn't be considered the best possible medium, when nothing else can claim to last even that long. What amazes me is that people are still hesitating to commit their data to CD-R, even though it obviously lasts longer than anyhing else… Digressing a bit, I did some consulting recently for Price Waterhouse, and they had never even heard of CD-R. I ran into some folks at REPLItech who had no idea you could record a CD on a desktop, either. Scary.