Re:Just nuke the journals? Maybe not. (Score 1)

The problems with reading old articles in outmoded formats can be solved by not using them. What needs to be in the article? Text, tables and pictures. Why not just post the text in plain ascii, the tables as arrays of data points, and the pictures as plain jpeg files? OK, it won't be pretty, but it will be intelligible ove a long time. If you must, save the article twice, once as PDF, Postscript, Troff, or whatever fancy format you like which will disappear after some time and a plain archival version wich will be readable as long as the file system remains readable.