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

Like I said, anybody that wants, contact me.
If you don't do it soon, you can say goodbye to the opportunity!
J/K, lol.

How is that possible?  1.6 mbps?
I have messed with the registry, and got it up to 1.2 mbps from a slow 600
kbps.

I check me speed via www.pcpitstop.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "The Gray Wizard" <dbell@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 5:45 PM
Subject: 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
>