RE: Documentation archiving and retrieval

["Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>]

"Do it fast and forget the past" sounds more like a startup than a
government agency. I'd have thought that documentation and archiving at
a CYA bureaucracy would tend toward excess volume, not excess speed.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gene Kim-Eng
> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 12:08 PM
> To: Dan Goldstein; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: Re: Documentation archiving and retrieval
> 
> ... The DoD also has a long practice of requiring 
> contractors to archive records very, very quickly 
> at the end of contracts, and of not maintaining 
> backward compatibility with old data systems 
> when it implements new ones.
> 

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