[Air-l] my e-mail archives

[jeremy hunsinger]

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 at vt.edu
on the ibook
www.cddc.vt.edu
www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy
www.dromocracy.com