Copyright Reg CDR Damaged by Radiation

[hank alrich]

Sheesh...

I sent in a reg app during the second week of Dec 2007. They warned it
could take up to eight months to get a reg notice back.

Got the notice today...

The enclosed CDR was damaged by radiation, and they want another
submission, and they want it "promptly". Yeah, they want it promptly,
after taking nineteen months to get back to me...

This is the US government at "work".

Are cassettes more robust under radiation than are CDR's?

--
ha
shut up and play your guitar

[Mark]

On Jul 13, 11:01*am, (hank alrich) wrote:
> Sheesh...
>
> I sent in a reg app during the second week of Dec 2007. They warned it
> could take up to eight months to get a reg notice back.
>
> Got the notice today...
>
> The enclosed CDR was damaged by radiation, and they want another
> submission, and they want it "promptly". Yeah, they want it promptly,
> after taking nineteen months to get back to me...
>
> This is the US government at "work".
>
> Are cassettes more robust under radiation than are CDR's?
>
> --
> ha
> shut up and play your guitar

e-mail or on line submit an MP3 version

Mark

[hank alrich]

Mark > wrote:

> On Jul 13, 11:01 am, (hank alrich) wrote:
> > Sheesh...
> >
> > I sent in a reg app during the second week of Dec 2007. They warned it
> > could take up to eight months to get a reg notice back.
> >
> > Got the notice today...
> >
> > The enclosed CDR was damaged by radiation, and they want another
> > submission, and they want it "promptly". Yeah, they want it promptly,
> > after taking nineteen months to get back to me...
> >
> > This is the US government at "work".
> >
> > Are cassettes more robust under radiation than are CDR's?
> >
> > --
> > ha
> > shut up and play your guitar
>
> e-mail or on line submit an MP3 version
>
> Mark

In fact I did that earlier this year, after twice the originally
professed eight months had passed. So much time had elapsed that I
assumed they'd lost it. Now I'm going to see if 1) they will honor the
date of the original postmark, and 2) apply the second filing fee to my
next submission. All future submissions from me will be online.

--
ha
shut up and play your guitar

[Jay Kadis]

In article >,
(hank alrich) wrote:

> Sheesh...
>
> I sent in a reg app during the second week of Dec 2007. They warned it
> could take up to eight months to get a reg notice back.
>
> Got the notice today...
>
> The enclosed CDR was damaged by radiation, and they want another
> submission, and they want it "promptly". Yeah, they want it promptly,
> after taking nineteen months to get back to me...
>
> This is the US government at "work".
>
> Are cassettes more robust under radiation than are CDR's?

There was a paper several years ago by Ampex that detailed the effects
of ionizing radiation on analog tape. The answer was that heat would
cause damage before the ionization did. Which begs the question a bit
if heat is necessarily an effect of strong enough radiation.

-Jay