At 12:19 PM 1/25/98 -0600, Igor Chudov @ home wrote:
Just for your information, I _WAS_ mistaken. The papers burned really well. My confusion about burnability of papers arose because in the past I tried to burn magazines, and not papers and letters. The whole big box is gone, after two burns. Burning is unquestionably better than shredding.
There are shredders, and then there are shredders. The SOHO-sized shredders that just cut things into ribbons aren't very thorough (and it's been demonstrated that documents shredded that way can be reassembled by sufficiently large numbers of Iranian college students) but they're good prep for burning the papers. On the other hand, the cross-cut shredders that leave flakes no more than 1/8" rectangles or even smaller chad are good enough for classified documents. Of course, if your documents are on floppy disks, any shredder that won't jam on them does a pretty good job :-) Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639