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Re: Will we keep email (and everything else) forever one day?
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Karin Hendrickson <[log in to unmask]>
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Records Management Program <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Wed, 26 Oct 2005 16:53:31 -0600
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How's this for a retention and migration nightmare:  the records of the
nuclear waste being shipped to Carlsbad, NM, from Los Alamos lab have a
retention schedule of 10,000 years!  Because that's how long the waste will
be radioactive.

At 04:41 PM 10/26/2005, you wrote:
>appraised would be useful for research in 10 years or 50 years or 100 years
>because I couldn't possibly predict the future.  My argument was
>always..."well of course it would be nice to keep everything but that is
>simply physically & financially impossible so we do the best we can".

Karin M. Hendrickson
LANL IM-EP
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