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

[pausch@saafNOSPAM.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <8je59g$7ka$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,  <bobryan9@my-deja.com> wrote:
 
> In article <395A91A3.ABF7A1DB@dcnet2000.com>,
>   Phoenyx <quazar@dcnet2000.com> wrote:
>> From the info I've gathered. CD-roms last approximately 75 years
>> and CD-RW media will last 90 to 100 years and up. Rather weird
>> considering the CD-RW media gets 'melted' during rewrites.
> 
> Since it's only been about 20 years since CD was developed, I don't
> know how anybody can put much faith in any predictions.
>
> One major reason CD's will not last very long is that they get
> scratched and become useless.  I think it's a stupid design, probably
> endorsed by publishers because once you scratch 'em, you gotta get a
> new one.  I haven't had a music CD last me a year without it getting
> skip problems.  Another thing about Audio CD's is that many of the car
> stereo CD players scratch the heck out of the CD when you insert/eject
> the disk.
 
Obviously you're not very careful when handling your CD's, or else
you wouldn't have scratched each and every one of your CD's within
only a year of use.
 
Of course you can drastically shorten the lifetime of any medium by
abusing it enough.  However, this discussion was about the inherent
lifetime of a CD, not about how long a CD can be abused and still be
readable.
 
So an implicit assumption in this discussion of the lifetime of
CD's was that it should be handled carefully, so it does not
become scratched for instance.  It's not particularly difficult,
but it does of course require some care.
 
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