[sf-lug] Interim postings (was: Thanks are owed to Michael Paoli)

Daniel Gimpelevich daniel at gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us
Wed Jan 21 21:40:01 PST 2015


On Wed, 2015-01-21 at 21:23 -0800, Rick Moen wrote:
> That being said, I tend to ruthlessly delete mail after reading,
> unless
> I expect to need it later.

Once upon a time, I did that too. It's been so long since I decided that
extra step didn't gain me anything that I'd literally forgotten that
people do this.

> If nobody can, then, sorry, I have other priorities, even if
> theoretically I _might_ be able to track down, undelete, and manually
> collect into a single mbox file a bunch of SMTP traffic - as if I had
> no pressing needs of my own.  (Generally, I've found that you're far
> more likely to get favours from busy people if you help with whatever
> groundwork is feasible, such that doing you a favour isn't perceived
> as
> yet another time sink.)

I would've done it myself had I actually received all the messages, but
alas I didn't.





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