Write-only archives (was: Parking heads on Honeywell DPS6)

Jay wrote, after a few bandishments back-and-forth on the "Parking heads" thread: I think that more usefully we could all begin complaining about what we don't like about "write-only" archives. I'm not talking purely about "black-hole" perceptions (e.g. you send it in but nothing ever comes out) but also about a lack of concern for web access, formats friendly to OCR'ing and searchability, etc. Similarly those who scan out-of-date documentation (computers, test equipment, whatever) and sell it on E-bay have a very strong interest in making their archives be poorly searchable and megabyte- large. Recently there's been wars about scanning and downloading old semiconductor datasheets among commercial and semi-commercial entities that want to sell access to that data. I'm not saying that there's no commercial value in access to the data, but the folks who scanned those datasheets and sold scanned datasheets to begin with never really "owned" the IP of the datasheet. Tim.