Re: Safe conlanging, was: Aaaaaargh!!!!!

En réponse à Vasiliy Chernov <bc_@...>:

> The sad story with Dan, and the former case with (Old) Tokana web site,
> and my own unpleasant experience of same type, reminded me of an idea.
>
> Aren't we all on the Net? I guess (nearly) everybody can allot a few MB
> of disk space for securing others and him/herself from such calamities.
>
Well, good that you added the (nearly) :) . I happen not to have my own
computer, so unfortunately I cannot give space to anyone. There would still be
the available space on my webpage account (100 free Mo! I've been using only 5
until now) but I don't what is the policy of Free on using it as a storage
place, and anyway I've been unable to access it for the last 6 months (so much
that I'm considering looking for another host).

> So, why not exchange copies of materials which are hard to recover and
> not especially private? I mean specifically conlang-related stuff.
>
That would be nice that's sure. It's true that I need a safe place to put my
material (at least the one in electronic form. Sheets of paper don't fit nicely
into a cable :) ).

> I think I can reserve some 20 MB for that purpose on my poor old
> Pentium90 that I have at home. Please consider this the official
> statement of my modest contribution to Safe Conlanging Foundation.
>
> And perhaps some members of the list dispose of much more space than
> I do.
>
> My own files which are worth securinf are mostly .txt or Starling .dbf,
> rarely MS Word-95, hardly 2 MB altogether (I must check it).
>
> What do you think, folks?
>
That it's a great idea. It's only unfortunate that I can participate it only as
a demanding part, not an offering one...

Christophe.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr