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Message text written by Ian Chivers >> > A journal which doesn't have many subscribers, and isn't available in many > libraries isn't much more accessible; at least many of the better > postings to this list and to Usenet get grabbed and incorporated in a > number of web-sites. They may last as long as Fortran does. posting to comp-fortran-90 are archived indefinitely. I made a case to mailbase some time ago and they accepted the points and agreed to do this. < Excellent. However, you might be interested to know that doubts about the very long-term stability of data media and of accessibility to means to read them recently caused the UK parliament to reaffirm its practice of printing a copy of all its statutes on vellum! Imagine the Doomsday Book had been written only on 1/2 " tape! Mike %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%