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On a recent Wednesday afternoon, the Commissioner of the Department of Records & Information Services <http://www.nyc.gov/html/records/html/about/about.shtml> led two reporters down a flight of stairs, through a glass door, and past a sign that warned "Restricted Area...Employees Only." Behind a bored looking security guard and a beige door sat thousands of boxes that contain the archives from every mayoral administration through Giuliani's. “Their collections have been inventoried to the folder level,” Commissioner Pauline Toole said. “It reflects a kind of traditional, historical view of what is history.” http://bit.ly/216TUxa http://bit.ly/216TUxa+ -- Peterk Dallas, Tx [log in to unmask] Save our in-boxes! http://emailcharter.org "The problems of our economy have occurred not as an outgrowth of laissez-faire, unbridled competition. They have occurred under the guidance of federal agencies, and under the umbrella of federal regulations." Senator Ted Kennedy, in defending trucking deregulation in 1978. Contact the list owner for assistance at [log in to unmask] For information about joining, leaving and suspending mail (eg during a holiday) see the list website at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=archives-nra