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

I have functioning CDRW-drive with lots of unused disks (650 M each). I'd
be happy to keep a back up of files for a couple people.

At 2/28/01 12:10 PM -0500, you wrote:
>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?
>
>
>Basilius


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