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  • From: Chris Garriss <cgarriss@garriss.net>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] forum versus email
  • Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 12:58:18 -0400

I have (many) years of NAFEX emails stored in folders / subfolders of my
email client - and backed up on an external drive. Actually, I think I have
every message to NAFEX, except the "out of office" kind of things, whether
or not I was interested in the topic - times & interests change - for quite
a few years. Since I use Seamonkey (a Mozilla browser / email package
combination) the email is in a format (mbox) that Seamonkey, Thunderbird and
a number of other mail programs use / recognize. I have the messages
threaded and the client supports a good search methodology. So I can search
on subjects, people (to / from / sender / cc / etc) within the body of the
email, dates, size, attachment status and other criteria.

I much prefer email to fora, not least because I can save (or not) as i
please, and the history is easily available.

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Ernest Plutko
<ernestplutko@wiktel.com>wrote:

> Internet forums seem to die without warning. It takes a lot of time
> and effort to care for a forum. The operator may be enthusiastic now
> but this could (for sure)soon wane and become a pain. I bought a new
> Dell computer and a 2TB Iomega stand alone hard drive. I will begin
> saving all Nafex emails on the stand alone hard drive. Computers
> sometimes crash or have virus problems and your data can easily
> disappear or become corrupted. Saving data on the stand alone hard
> drive is much more secure than relying on the computer hard drive. I
> wonder about some past Nafex emails but they are gone. A TB is a 1000
> GBs. A lot of data for now. I am sure more powerful memory devices
> will be available.
>
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