I'm not quite sure what you mean by "archiving." I've saved virtually almost my incoming and outgoing email messages since 1995 when I first started downloading mail into Eudora until today, but I haven't compiled or processed them in any way--they are just in a bunch of Eudora folders (organized by year). I guess I've got about 70,000 incoming email messages on my hard drive, and a smaller number of outgoing messages. Don't know quite what to do with them, but they're useful when I want to check back on my previous communication with someone, even dating back several years. Mark Warschauer http://www.gse.uci.edu/markw At 7:40 PM -0500 1/23/02, jeremy hunsinger wrote:
today i took the opportunity to burn some of the abundant processor power available these days and ran mhonarc on my old eudora outbox from one machine, my old nt server, 41000000+ bytes 18700+messages around 10 a day going out. so in all covers more or less my complete outgoing life from 1997 when i applied to ph.d. programs to oct. 2001 or so. has anyone else archived all their incoming and outgoing emails, and considered them? why or why not? Looking over these things, i cannot make it public really, but still it is there, it represents to some extent what i have done. opinions, ideas? I mean this archive comes to somewhere around 25000+ pages of writing, most of which I wrote, most of it innocuous and meaningless outside of its reparte, but it exists much of it in confidence. So I am sittiing here, the reason why i did it, of course, was to provide me with better access, I'll run my search engines over it a few times and be able to dig through it as i wish, but really, are these things the papers of our day? are email communications really, as they are figured frequently, ephemeral? jeremy hunsinger jhuns@vt.edu on the ibook www.cddc.vt.edu www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy www.dromocracy.com
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