Responding to msg by tbyfield@panix.com (t byfield) on Wed, 10 Jan 10:42 AM

I ain't holding my breath until someone develops a search engine for Fresh Kills.

(See code relevance at end.) For the curious, Fresh Kills is NYC's main waste archive, the largest built structure in the US (a favorite of Japanese techno-tourists exceeding 256 Great Pyramids of Egypt) and still heaping. Archeologists are indeed excavating selected spots, under grants made after probes revealed that decomposition was not occurring as expected. Newspapers and such were perfectly preserved after years of burial. Due to sophisticated engineering of the mountain to prevent dispersal, air and moisture could not enter to lubricate return to mother earth. However, very profitable methane gas retrieval has been taking place for many years -- which may be a suitable metaphor for mining electronic archives. Now, then, code for this glop? Construction debris can be illegally dumped at Fresh Kills with the proper building-code-compliant green handily hooked to the side of the dumpster for the guard.