From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V7 #422 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Tuesday, June 17 2008 Volume 07 : Number 422 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] CD Rot ["outbound-only email address" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:27:32 -0400 From: "outbound-only email address" Subject: [loud-fans] CD Rot >> Was the long-term shrink-wrapping dangerous, or was some other factor at work? << Everything I've read (qutie a bit) suggests there are two main factors: 1. Contamination at the presing plant 2. Repeated heating/cooling cycles (the more extreme/rapid the worse) I would expect the shrink wrap to do visible damage to the packaging long before it hurt the disc. Comic book folks (at least used to) say that polyethylene bags were okay (better than nothing) storage for comics for 7-10 years, and I suspect the plastic in shrink wrap is less leach-y than poly bags. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:48:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Dan Sallitt Subject: Re: [loud-fans] CD Rot > I would expect the shrink wrap to do visible damage to the packaging long > before it hurt the disc. > Comic book folks (at least used to) say that polyethylene bags were okay > (better than nothing) storage for comics for 7-10 years, > and I suspect the plastic in shrink wrap is less leach-y than poly bags. The shrink wrap wasn't in contact with the CD, of course. I was wondering whether maybe the shrink wrap trapped something inside the package that would otherwise dissipate. But it sounds as if it was just a coincidence that the rot and the shrink wrapping went together. Thanks. - Dan ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V7 #422 *******************************