Don't Cut Unarchived Lists...-Reply

[Jared Phillips <PHILLIJM@WPOFFICE.WHITMAN.EDU>]

1)  Not permanent.  Unlike published journals, books, etc., you can find
published  items from your library (interlibrary loan department) even if
you library doesn't have it.  Internet sites are not permanent.  As
someone said before URL's blink out of existence.  Archived lists can be
lost on a server or hard disk crash.  

2)  Potential for abuse.  Nothing prevents me from making a web site,
writing great evidence - using it, and then discontinuing the web site. 
Even if I mailed the copy to everyone who wanted it (how many
NDT/CEDA schools are there?  200? 400?)  there would be no way to
check abuse.  Even if CEDA-L or NDT-L archived the stuff, what would
be the check against writing your own evidence?  None.  At least with
published books, journals, etc. you can check the evidence out.

Finally, I don't want to seem totally against the Internet as a source for
evidence, it's just that it seems too easy to abuse.  

-Jared Phillips
Whitman College

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