Saving America as it struggles to retain legacy, electronic, documentation

It seems like Adobe is well suited to contact many, most USA cities, even States, to help them make copies that cannot be corrupted by international influences, for example, if a Bend, Oregon wastewater map gets altered, Adobe checks in every so often, Oh! Hey! Someone altered this document, Mr. Mayor! This map has a change here, this date, City Manager!
The idea is to recognize a profound, accelerating, decay of electronic document storage, and the inevitable manipulations ongoing have a cure or a product Adobe can vend- house own version of countless City, State, documents in locked PDF format, that nobody can get to. Nobody.
Again, a product where honorable federal monies would be granted to alleviate ongoing internet, cyber, urgent, issues.
Mike

You have to place your graphics on an external webserver and
link to these graphics with Absolute paths

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Hi,
I agree with the approach, i have also use similar one in a project,,
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reg
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Good day
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To introduce myself, I am an active SDN/BPX member as well as an ASUG Archiving and Information Lifecycle Management Volunteer.
Decommissioning Legacy Systems (SAP and non-SAP systems) is quite the topic these days with divestitures becoming such a common occurrence.
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Identifying the retention policies for this data (this will be
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service.sap.com/ilm
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