I have, I think, everything back to Aug 17, 1999. Will that help?
On Sunday, August 19, 2001, at 07:59 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
> 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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