[New-Poetry] Curious about lack of search engine presence

[Anny Ballardini]

Poor Uche!
You need trillions of moments...
I only need fourillions, :-)

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 10:26 PM, Uche Ogbuji <uche at ogbuji.net> wrote:

> Bob Grumman wrote:
> > Uche Ogbuji wrote:
> >> jforjames at aol.com wrote:
> >>
> >>> Unfortunately that's true, Bob. Somewhere along the way, unbeknownst to
> >>> me, some changes were made to the system and somehow the early years of
> >>> our archives got lost/dumped. My tech contact said he'd look for
> >>> them and try to restore them. But that didn't seem to happen and
> >>> since we're not paying for this service, it 's hard to get attention
> for
> >>> anything that's not a critical listserv failure.
> >>>
> >>> As I've said before, it's best to save those posts you think are
> keepers
> >>> rather than rely on fickle gods of free IT.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Ooh, ow, that's not something we can let happen, and I think I happen to
> >> be in a position to do something about it.
> >>
> >> I'll work today on setting up a search-able archive/mirror for the list.
> >>
> >> In case Finnegan's tech can't recover the lost archives, I might be able
> >> to with some help.  If you have been on this list from the start, and
> >> you have been saving all the e-mail to a folder, please let me know by
> >> direct e-mail.  I should be able to take a mailbox file, and recover any
> >> messages that are not on the official archives.  I can help you with
> >> instructions on how to copy your e-mail folder to me.  Obviously, you'll
> >> want to have kept new-po messages in a separate folder containing no
> >> personal mail
> >
> > Uche, I don't know what I've got pre-2005, but if I do, it's on my
> > previous computer.  That's still here, but inconvenient.  Anyway, for a
> > long time, I've wanted to be able to copy e.mail to a disk, but haven't
> > learned how (and haven't looked for a program that will do it due to
> > lack of time and money).  Unless it's too much work, could you post
> > instructions on this to New-Poetry for the benefit of those who could
> > use it for many things beside updating the archive.  One of my big needs
> > is to be able to move big files of e.mail I rarely look at out of my
> > system to free up space.
>
> No worries.  It's not too much work.  I ended up resting off a cold over
> the weekend rather than taking a look at this, but I will write
> something up this week or over the weekend.  You have my permission to
> badger me if it slips :)
>
>
> > In any case, much thanks for volunteering the help with the archive.  I
> > had what I thought a swing of good posts in it that I also had on my
> > computer--until the latter crashed.  Yeah, now I do have a plug-in hard
> > drive that I have all my important stuff backed-up on, but then I
> > didn't.  Anyway, I think I was able to remember all the important points
> > I made (about Pound's Metro poem), but I'm sure there are Important
> > Thoughts of mine in the lost archives.
>
> Ooh. Analysis of In a Station of the Metro is certainly not to be lost.
>  That's one of my favorite poems to consider and re-consider.  One of
> the times I did so was on my Weblog.  I'll dig up a link, also when I
> get a moment.
>
>
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