[IWE] Lost us?

[Nightowl]

I have several threads of IWT saved to my computer, but I'm sure that's not much compared to what's missing.

I hope it can be recovered too. Sad loss, if it can't.

Brenda


--- On Fri, 1/23/09, Ashton Brown <ashton@vom.com> wrote:

> From: Ashton Brown <ashton@vom.com>
> Subject: Re: [IWE] Lost us?
> To: iwe@warhead.org.uk
> Date: Friday, January 23, 2009, 3:42 PM
> I'm sure I read, early-on that.. there was a Real Backup
> made ~ 12/07 --> early '08?.  By Admin?
> Can this be confirmed? 
> Unthinkable that *everything* through Year 0 could.. even
> possibly have become toast!
> -- given the level of (incidents, skepticism of) RAID-lore
> extant + the communal {wink/nudge} disdain,
> the chortling every time a newbie is reported:  with his
> 8-year novel MSS. On a brick ... and No Backups.
> 
> Irretrievable -- those *searchable*  n-hours of collective
> research  ??
> (EZBoard contents evanesced, but for a certain period a one
> could have saved, all-unorganized, a few gems - if not the
> threads.)
> 
> Recent solemn-quip heard, "when somebody dies, it is
> as if a library has been burned down."
> Commutative logic seems to apply.
> 
> 
> Ashton
> Sic transit Gloria mundane
> 
> 
> broomberg@optimum.net wrote:
> 
> > If you want, scott can send you the dvd and you can
> relive the tandem vs unix discussion. You were right, for
> the most part, but you didn't know why.
> > 
> > Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T
> > 
> >
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > *From*: golf_lover44
> > *Date*: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:42:09 -0800 (PST)
> > *To*: <iwe@warhead.org.uk>
> > *Subject*: Re: [IWE] Lost us?
> > So all of the tens of thousands of posts are gone
> forever?
> > 
> > That's mucho sad - there was so much knowledge
> posted over the years, and to lose it, hurts us all.
> > 
> > Lincoln
> > 
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