Does anyone (except me) see it as ironic that organizations, dedicated to
preservation, would trash something so important to their own history as
their written records?

>I foresee a tragedy in the making when the simple databases become the
>foundation for more complex structures as they become needed.  It is the
>same tragedy that librarians have suffered as card catalogues, often with
>handwritten annotations, are tossed out and replaced by databases that
>cannot accommodate the rich details and patina encoded by history.
>

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