The text is all there, BUT -- I've changed my OS once, computers twice,
and email programs three times. Sometimes I was receiving digests,
sometimes individual emails. Altogether, it's about 50 megabytes of
text: converting the whole thing to some consistent format would be a
considerable job.
Right now, I'm using MacOS X, which is a Berkeley UNIX at heart, and
Apple's Mail program. If jiscmail has an idea how they can use what I
have, I'm perfectly willing to get it to them somehow.
On Sunday, August 19, 2001, at 04:39 PM, Candice Ward wrote:
> Wow, Michael, that's great! Maybe we can arrange with Jiscmail to
> incorporate _your_ archives with their own and the prior Mailbase set
> they
> inherited. It's Poetryetc as a whole that has lost these archives to
> Listbot's unannounced demolition work, and we've been just sick about
> it for
> everyone's sake as well as Lawrence's. Thanks--Candice
>
>
> on 8/19/01 1:19 PM, Michael Snider at [log in to unmask] wrote:
>
>> 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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