FW: The Economist and e-Archiving

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The existence of national caches (e.g., Finland caching the entire
cross-Atlantic traffic to facilitate access by its citizens), as well as
such enterprises to archive the Internet as The Wayback Machine
(http://www.archive.org/) vitiate the idea that anyone can take back what
has already been uttered on the net, or communicated to the public. I've
never seen it work with e-mail (usually one receives a foolish message
from Mr X comfortably before the "Mr X wishes to retrieve that last
message" message comes in, making Mr X look even more foolish), let alone
(alas!) in "real life".

Chris Zielinski
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