[ih] Link rot (was: Museum archiving (was: Re: IENs))

[Joseph Touch]

Hi, all,

> On May 8, 2021, at 4:27 PM, Dave Walden via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> 
> It is important to keep an archive of paper copies.


Newspapers are routinely archived only or primarily as photographic images to save space and overcome the limitations of their original (non-archival) medium. 

For IENs, even that is overkill as most were generated as only ASCII text. There is little if any utility in preserving that representation vs. an ASCII file. (Yes, there were some exceptions with figures, but those could be augmented with scanned image files).

Joe (list admin hat off)