At 03:37 PM 4/5/03 -0500, jim barchuk wrote: >I do exactly the opposite. I keep nothing except a few bookmarks. I >operate under the assumption that everything I have will be updated or >even obsolete within three months, and subscribe to every possible 'new >version' mailing list for the stuff that I use. For the software that >doesn't have such lists, once in a while I'll take a look through the >system, think 'wonder if that's gone The last 4 words I quoted above describes my feelings about relying only upon a hopefully live web copy of something I *use*. Links are fine for *potentially useful* stuff. But if I use something, you can bet that I have a local copy stashed on my drive and in my backups. Just spend a few hours and test some of those links you have stashed away. I'll bet that a significant number of them no longer work. Now how do you find that info again? Go looking for it all over once more. In other words, I'd rather have an old copy of important information rather than no copy at all. And, the next time I go to use that information, I'll check to see if a newer version is available. If so, I download and archive it. If not, I'll continue to use the copy I already have. And if the original web copy is no longer available, I'm happy that I saved it. dwayne PS - your argument for NOT updating obsolete information on Piclist.com doesn't hold up, either. It sounds as if you are saying that it is better to leave bad information on-line rather than correcting it just because the corrected copy has to be stored there too. Me - I'd rather see the correct information posted and the old version expunged. James makes it easy for any of us to help out with that process. dwayne PPS - James also makes an off-line copy of Piclist.com available on CD-ROM for some trivial amount (essentially no money at all). No profit there: just a service. Email addresses have been hosed so that no one gets spammed. dwayne -- Dwayne Reid Trinity Electronics Systems Ltd Edmonton, AB, CANADA (780) 489-3199 voice (780) 487-6397 fax Celebrating 19 years of Engineering Innovation (1984 - 2003) .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .- `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' Do NOT send unsolicited commercial email to this email address. This message neither grants consent to receive unsolicited commercial email nor is intended to solicit commercial email. -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body