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With due respect optical media is not without fault either. If the content is important to you it will be available from multiple places (i.e. more than one backup and or even multiple media types). This way you can enjoy the convenience of online storage for ease of access and refer to your alternate offline backup if necessary.

Let’s daisychain another old chestnut: the reliability of optical media: Is there any news of advances? or does the best we can do still consist of avoiding electromagnetic fields and high ambient temperatures?

I store seed at -23 deg C to increase viability period from 4 years at 20 deg C to 20 years: would that help?

I use Outlook, but am in the process of changing to Thunderbird, why? Because it is more ‘portable’ IMO.
I really like the T’bird 3.0 Beta but I need to find a way to enhance the ‘Address Book’ Outlook has spoiled me with theirs.
BTW, anyone know where to find a T’bird plugin that makes setting up Address Book lists quick?

So far, nobody does!
Perhaps it would be as slow scanning a column of hundreds of addresses to check-mark a dozen for putting into a group address-list as to do it the T’bird way and enter the nicknames of the dozen.

I graduated from Outlook Express, and have used T’bird almost exclusively for more than three years. The only competitor I use at all is the mail client built into Opera. Outlook would have been overkill, and was obviously an easy way in for hackers.

I have always been pleased with T’bird’s size, speed, and the usability of the user interface. Now I like the add-ons enough to tolerate the extra inertia. What I regret is the obscurity of the underlying structure, which becomes apparent as soon as I want to alter anything – a camel designed by a committee? I deplore the absence of coherent help – T’bird needs a .HLP file.