Re: A2 Trade/Swap???? site discovered - What are your thoughts on such a site?

[fadden@netcom.com (Andy McFadden)]

In article <395b99c8@ecn.ab.ca>,  <tturner@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:
>--> This partially relates - earlier, someone mentioned that they'd
>    seen or recalled info that indicated that CD's would only last 5
>    years. I find this really hard to believe; as all the sources I've
>    checked (though, admittedly, not recently) indicate a minimum of
>    approximately fifty years for CD's/CD-ROMS (dunno 'bout other `CD'
>    formats); which is ten times longer (and, makes much more sense,
>    AFAICT). My question is - what's the source of this `five year'
>    estimate on the life-cycle of a CD? Without such a source for
>    verification; I would respectfully suggest that the person that
>    is `recalling' that length of time - is mistaken.

The only occurrence of "5 years" in relation to CD longevity that
I have seen is the shelf-life of an unrecorded CD-R.  An obscure
reference somewhere along the way said that, after 5 years, you'd
have trouble writing to a CD-R, perhaps because the dye "sets"
somehow.  I've only seen the information in one place, so I would
take it with a grain of salt.

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