At 08:45 PM 9/3/2005, you wrote:
>Anyone here save their emails for those future eager biographers? Not sure
>that I'd like anyone looking at mine -
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>Best
>
>A
Very entertaining. I would just as soon pass. Some of my email
followed me into a divorce lawyer's office--she was not MY
lawyer. In 1985 some of it got me fired and contributed to putting
me on a 8-year AT&T greylist. I do not keep email.
Well, that is a lie. I retained job applications while I was job
hunting to prove to a judge that I wasn't an indifferent bum trying
to get out of paying support. I also have succumbed and retained
email if I thought I was particularly clever if it contained poetry,
etc.:-). I kept a lot of what I received here. Then, in the last 45
days I have had two system disasters--mostly self-inflicted via
stupidity--which caused me to lose all my email. So I started
over. The worst part was getting the serial numbers from companies
where I had registered now-defunct programs. As a sidebar, I will
never buy another Adobe product because they took over Syntrillium--a
firm that made a great sound recording and manipulation program
called CoolEdit 2000--and insisted I buy their new product,
Audition. "No serial number for YOU." So I pirated Audition with a
fake serial number until I found my own correct Syntrillium numbers.
Kazaa is great for making a thief feel like Captain Blood.
As for retaining emails...when I had the crashes I learned the
emotional and contentual value of most emails. Mine or anyone
else's. Nil. Nada. Nunca. Nulla. Who cares what most people
write in this binary medium? I do not exclude myself.
There is something particularly final-feeling about crushing up or
burning a piece of paper. Hitting the Del key is almost too easy.
I do not expect to die famous enough for anyone to read my
correspondence. If they do, tough darts because it'll be gone.
Ken
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