8 Mar
2005
8 Mar
'05
2:48 p.m.
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, John Foust wrote:
At 01:38 PM 3/8/2005, Adrian Vickers wrote:
I don't save anything (well, unless you count the messages I leave in my
classiccmp folder that I intend to get to later). But I expect the list
to be archived so I can always refer back to it.
Well, touch wood - I've lost very few (if any)
e-mails since 1996, when I first got connected to the Internet. Proper backups are the
key, something too many people have forgotten these days, now that hardware is
reliable[1].
Yes, but does anyone here actually save every message? I delete
everything that's not of interest to me in the present. This doesn't
help me for the future, though, so chances are slim I'd be able to
search my personal archives for references to a previously unknown device. And speaking of backup, is it relevant to this
discussion to know
exactly how the mailing list archives are backed-up and/or mirrored?
Jay has done a decent enough job archiving it over the years, though I do
wonder if a complete mirror has been made. If not, I think I'll be the
first to volunteer right here and now to be a CC archive mirror.
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