----- Original Message -----
From: Dennis W. Farrell <dfarrell@ridgecrest.ca.us>
To: <wwpotter@tscnet.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 1999 3:50 PM
Subject: Admin Note: Minor (?) Catastrophe
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> West Wight Potter Website at URL
> http://www.lesbois.com/wwpotter/
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> [long, but please read]
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> All: as of Christmas day, I've lost all my Potter-related files - and
> everything else, for that matter. Combine a crashed disk containing
> *all* my computer work for the past 4 years and a back-up scheme which
> didn't work when needed and you have the really intense fun I've been
> having for the last three days. My system is now rebuilt as far as
> programs are concerned. All (repeat *all*) data is gone. All Potter
> stuff - all digests, all saved correspondence, all bounce notices, all
> subscribes/unsubscribes, all material saved from the lesbois web site,
> and on and on and on. My historyof thePotter List is gone. I've lost
> my address book. All my notes on interesting and/or useful things to do
> with and for Potters are gone.
>
> This won't interfere to any great extent with ongoing list operations.
> Slow them a bit, and perhaps require that people re-contact me if
> they've asked for an action which I haven't done
>
> I would appreciate it if:
> - those with whom I've been recently corresponding would send me their
> email addresses and copies of their last notes to me if they saved
> copies;
> - those 4 people with whom I had been attempting to share list
> maintenance would email me;
> - those who have related web sites which aren't listed on the Potter
> Yachter's site would send me their URLs;
> - those who had previously told me they had an extensive collection of
> Potter Digests would email me;
> - anyone who has copies of the correspondence concerning the transition
> of the list from Joe McWilliams to Allen Parks to me would send me
> copies.
>
> In addition. I've sent information on "how to use the list" -
> subscribing, unsubsribing, avoiding html, not "replying to" the digest
> and that sort of thing - and I'd appreciate getting back copies of that
> material if anyone has saved them. It will save my reinventing the
> words.
>
> Finally, a person on the list sent me some *good* material on how to
> avoid use of html in Netscape email and a URL containing lots of
> Netscape "help" material on that and related topics. I'm sufficiently
> brain-fried after the last three days that I can't recall who. Please
> let me know who you were and if possible re-send the URL(s).
>
> That's the story.
>
> Happy New Year - and many of them - to all.
>
> Regards -- dwf (Potter Mailing List maintainer) - and disgraced
> computer professional !!
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