I agree. In a few billion years the sun goes red dwarf and we all get fried,
including the permanent archives. what's permanent?

My organisation has lots of physical infrastructure (buildings, tunnels
under roads etc). Retention is 'disposal of asset plus 7 years' and some of
these assets last 100 plus years. All have defined financial and engineering
lives. My predecessors here tended to just say 'permanent', but I'm getting
my team to go through the schedules and put in the real retention rather
than using 'permanent' as a cop out. With computerised systems you can
manage long or short retention periods and logically definable triggers.
Defining something as 'permanent' means you give up managing it
intellectually.

Cheers

Glenn

Glenn Sanders
Australia
0407 187 333
These views are mine alone. They may or may not be those of any
previous or present employers or clients. I don't know. If I'd asked and
they'd agreed, I would have signed it "Harry Peck and Co and Glenn".
Or whatever. But I haven't, so I didn't.

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