Re: email question (was The HTML Experiment)

[Derek Chirnside <d.chirnside@phys.canterbury.ac.nz>]

Ron Ebert wrote:
> The way I do it to keep track of things is to use my work computer as my
> main archive storage medium. I place e-mails that I want to save in their
> own mailboxes - e.g., I have one for this list I call Phys-L. At the end of
> the week, I copy all my mailbox files, such as Phys-L.mbx and Phys-L.toc,
> to diskettes and take them home to install on my home computer. This lets
> me read them at home if I want to and also serves as a backup better than
> most - a fire in my lab may trash my computer, but the copies are at a
> different physical location.
>
> When I want to pull mail off the campus server from home, I call in and get
> them. After reading through them, all those I want to save I place in a
> unique mailbox - UCR-Transfer. Sunday evening I copy ucr-tran.mbx and
> ucr-tran.toc to a diskette and take them to work Monday morning. I copy
> these files into my work computer's Eudora folder, and I then move the
> e-mails to which ever mailboxes they belong on my work computer. Everything
> is neat, tidy, in order, and nothing is ever left on my campus server.

This is interesting.  I'd not realised this about Eudora.

I have a home account and a work account.
Work stuff goes to work.  Home stuff to home.
If I want to work on work stuff at home I mail it to and fro with well
defined headers etc and a set of Subdirectories at each end.
Advantage:  no diskettes
Disadvantages:  I can remember a few times wishing I had file X at home.

How do others handle archiving, storing, saving interesting posts?
I maintain a file 'archive.txt' which opens at startup.
Into here I extract small paragraphs/bits of emails I'm interested in
and at times save the file inder a name.
eg. Constructivism References
But I regard the system as clumsy.  I'd love a system where I could
extract parts of e-mails, concatanate mails into subject areras far more
efficiently.  My mail directory has a section 'encylopedia' where I put
stuff under topics.  But often I only want a one line reference to go
with 10 other one line references.  Each from a different mail.
?? any suggestions?  

Derek

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