[Air-l] my e-mail archives

[Mark Warschauer]

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