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- From: phydeaux@guru.med.cornell.edu (Dave Weingart)
- Subject: Re: Articles About Internet in Mass Media (Was Internet (Glob
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- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 16:32:16 GMT
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- In article <726091651snz@keris.demon.co.uk>, chris@keris.demon.co.uk (Chris Croughton) writes:
- |> I save *everything* <g>. No, not quite all my email, as much of it is
- |> trivial, but the personal correspondence with friends, that I *do* keep,
- |> both incoming and outgoing. One person alone in the last 20 months
- |> since we started corresponding has taken up 3.6 Mb on my hard disk, and
- |> that's just chat - the programs, stories, etc. must make it at least
- |> twice that transferred...
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- Yowf. Personally, since most email is by its very nature trivial chitchat, I
- don't save it for the reason that I _never_ have enough disk space.
-
- |> However, if I die, will anyone keep it or 'archive' it? I doubt it.
- |> It's a lot easier to wipe a disk than it is to throw away several
- |> thousands of letters - probably they wouldn't even bother looking...
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- Now here comes a question to make this more SF. Given some "archival" media
- (i.e. one that lasts for centuries), and a clever enough archaeologist in
- the future who can _read_ the disks/CDs/what-have-you, what picture could they
- draw of life among the 20th Century Usenetter Tribe?
-
- --
- 73 de David Weingart KB2CWF In the event I am captured or killed, the
- phydeaux@cumc.cornell.edu Cornell University Medical College and the
- phydeaux@guru.med.cornell.edu Department of Academic Computing will disavow
- phydeaux@src4src.linet.org any knowledge of my opinions.
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