Preservation of correspondence

In article <45C67759.5020501 at bitsavers.org>, Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> writes: People look at me dumbfounded when I tell them that I use a unix shell account for all my email and news postings (and if you've been on this list for the past year or two, you know I send a lot of mail). The answer is simple: the unix machine is continuously backed up and it easily integrates my news/email together into one archive. I have kept a copy of every post/email since 1998 and its been very useful on many occasions to refer to previously sent mail -- particularly when someone contends that I typed something other than I did. I also know that I can gain access to my email from anywhere with a simple telnet client, even when I don't have my laptop accessible to me. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html> Legalize Adulthood! <http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/>