I agree with you Nick, but having them available for history is the key thing. I wouldn't rely on them to know how to do the job now, but to provide insight into what has worked and what didn't work and why. And of course this varies with the type of organization, engineering organizations (of all types) are more apt to benefit than say sales organizations. The risk is in not understanding the limitations of past knowledge and this is true be it retiree knowledge or captured knowledge....murray jennex