Many of you will remember, directly or indirectly, the late Alaric Sumner.
I am his literary executor
I have failed to access or retrieve his messages to poetryetc when it was
hosted by listbot; and I would really have liked to review them all. I have
many of them still, because I tend to back up files rather than deleting
them; but I cannot be sure that I have everything
I would have read them all at the time; but what might not have seemed of
great moment when he was a few hours up the motorway can take on an
unexpected importance now that he is dead and permanently unavailable.
I have found some even apparently insignificant email messages of use and
recently tracked down, from an aside in a private message, the delivery, as
a conference paper, of what I had thought was an essay which no one had
seen.
So, I would like your help. Would you mind doing a global search on your
email records? Some of you will be terribly tidy and efficient and old
messages will long ago have been cleared away. Others will be delightfully
acquisitive so that the search will throw up old messages from Mr Sumner to
poetryetc in its pre jisc/mailbase days. [His email address was
[log in to unmask]]
If you have any, could you forward them to me? I may be swamped for a day or
two with duplicate messages; but I can take it
That's all I ask. It won't take you long and it may help me retrieve
important data... I'll do the sorting, evaluating.
I am very grateful to you - in advance!
L
btw I shall, in due course, write a note about the lisbot fiasco for the
Sumner pages at the Sub Voicive Poetry site - where you can find lots of
information about the man as well as 7 years documentation of SVP - because
I'd hate MicroSoft to be denied full credit for what I consider to be bad
faith and vandalism
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