Persistence of Information


(This one is not a formally published and established information science law, but I did find it interesting enough to include anyway.)

On 6 Feb. 1996, Rachel Polanskis (Library Systems Software Support at the UWS Nepean Library in Kingswood, Greater Western Sydney, Australia) responded to a posting of the hoax warning about the "Good Times" email virus to the ATLAS-L listserv (atlas-l@tcubvm.is.tcu.edu) with:

Personally I have come up against this bogus nothingness now 7 times in about 6 months.

My name for it is "Persistence of Information" - once something gets onto the Internet it *never, ever goes away* ;)


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