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

> From: Vasiliy Chernov
>
> 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.
>
> So, why not exchange copies of materials which are hard to recover and
> not especially private? I mean specifically conlang-related stuff.
>
> 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?

Sounds like a good idea.  I learned from an unfortunate loss some years ago.
Now I retain redundant versions of my work on two or more of the 4 computers
on my home network as well as backing them up to 250M Zip Drives.  I can
archive peoples work on Zip drives if you'd like.  I have a 1.6M DSL line
(yeah, I'm a speed freak) so size of file downloads is no problem.

David

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