19 May
2005
19 May
'05
12:15 p.m.
On Thu, 19 May 2005, Randy McLaughlin wrote:
There is no guaranteed method to go 500 years, the
only reasonable thing is
to go with the best available.
I'll interpret that to mean no compression, no archive formats, etc. Just
offer the actual content.
In this case best means a format understood by the
majority.
Right, which is no format at all.
In the future ZIP formats will be better understood
than any other current
format for the simple reason there are more zip files to examine than any
other.
That's a very risky prediction.
Packaging data understood by a tiny fraction of the
world guarantees that it
will be near impossible to use in the future.
So don't package it at all.
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