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From: "Boyd Roberts" <boyd@fr.inter.net>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] [reminder] pointer to Plan 9 FAQ
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Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 12:29:58 +0200
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From: <geoff@collyer.net>
> Ultimately I don't trust magnetic media.  Tapes rot, stretch, jam and
> magnetic fields decay, and disks crash.  Moving cross-country has
> killed Seagate SCSI disks.  Only optical media are worth the effort it
> takes to record backups on them.

couldn't agree more.  been saying it for years (err, a decade?),
but they never listen.