The following is being posted on behalf of Jerome Kendall, Chesterfield Records Manager John Breeden Cross-cut shredding will reduce the paper to bits the size of uncooked macaroni, or smaller; the very expensive ones will nearly "rice" the materials. The bugaboo about strip shredding dates to the reconstruction by the Iranians of materials that were strip-shredded by American embassy staff during the Iranian hostage affair of the 1970's. It would seem to me that cross-cutting would be the way to go, although you have to trust somebody sometime; we have our materials shredded at a Weyerhaeuser recycling facility, and trust that they do not employ persons intent on looking for Social Security numbers, or for anything else. To UNSUBSCRIBE, change options, or subscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-rol.html (If using Netscape, must have version 6.1 or higher to view the above page)