On Aug 24, 2014, at 1:20 PM, taltman <taltm...@stanford.edu> wrote:

> Everything online is ephemeral. Just look at studies on link rot:
> 
> http://www.gwern.net/Archiving%20URLs
> 
> For storing the totality of humanity's work, we need to design something
> more like the Svalbard Global Seed Vault:
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Global_Seed_Vault

Someone explain to me why I’d *want* my emails stored until the end of time. 
I’d rather they rot and disappear if I made no effort to keep them.

That said, the NSA has a pretty good archive.

Al
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