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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