yes it is a knee-jerk reaction. I'll try to find some of them blog postings that will give you background info. the sad part is that many of the citizenry believes that the solution is to just put all audio recordings on CD. no thought of migrations, standards, testing, etc. the city does follow what the Texas State Library and Archives has established as retention periods, but many asked "what do we care what they (the Library) says" On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 7:14 AM, Alice Young <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Permanent retention of recordings?????? That sounds like a knee-jerk > reaction to a past/current problem that will only get worse! > -- Peter Kurilecz CRM CA IGP [log in to unmask] Dallas, Texas Save our in-boxes! http://emailcharter.org http://twitter.com/RAINbyte http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/RAINbyte/ http://paper.li/RAINbyte/rainbyte https://groups.google.com/d/forum/archives-in-the-news http://pinterest.com/pakurilecz/archives/ http://pinterest.com/pakurilecz/records-management/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/peterakurilecz #*CantbeworsethanPeterk* <https://twitter.com/hashtag/CantbeworsethanPeterk?src=hash> Information not relevant for my reply has been deleted to reduce the electronic footprint and to save the sanity of digest subscribers List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance To unsubscribe from this list, click the below link. If not already present, place UNSUBSCRIBE RECMGMT-L or UNSUB RECMGMT-L in the body of the message. mailto:[log in to unmask]