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<blockquote data-quote="BryonD" data-source="post: 3498679" data-attributes="member: 957">I work with government agencies a lot.Recently I've been getting requests that we cease sending them paper and start sending electronic files only.And &quot;having&quot; the files is one thing, being able to use them is another.&nbsp; I've been on records searches at government facilities only to find boxes and boxes of paper (and you have to go through 100 to find the one you want).&nbsp; It is not at all uncommon to find papers which have become glued to each other over the years, or to find that the ink has come off one page onto the back of another.Also, on two recent events I had a government official come ask me to provide replacements&nbsp; for documents because they had completely lost their originals. Paper is great for a lot of applications.&nbsp; But long term storage of paper just leads to an indexing disaster that often leads to a dead end or determination that the data is just plain gone.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BryonD, post: 3498679, member: 957"] I work with government agencies a lot. Recently I've been getting requests that we cease sending them paper and start sending electronic files only. And "having" the files is one thing, being able to use them is another. I've been on records searches at government facilities only to find boxes and boxes of paper (and you have to go through 100 to find the one you want). It is not at all uncommon to find papers which have become glued to each other over the years, or to find that the ink has come off one page onto the back of another. Also, on two recent events I had a government official come ask me to provide replacements for documents because they had completely lost their originals. Paper is great for a lot of applications. But long term storage of paper just leads to an indexing disaster that often leads to a dead end or determination that the data is just plain gone. [/QUOTE]

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