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Article #3249Re: NETCOM acount deleted "accidentally", please read
From: Mike Weber
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 00:00
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 00:00
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Don Baldwin (donb@netcom.com) wrote: : About 5 weeks ago, through some sort of "clerical error", NETCOM : deleted the UNIX shell account that I've had for 2+ years. After : about 2.5 weeks or so, I managed to convince someone there that : my account really shouldn't be missing and it was restored. That : much I can let slide, since I can't exactly claim career infallibility : myself. : However, I also had about 5 megabytes of files stashed there, including : personal e-mail from my 12 years in programming. Much of the data : stored there was irreplacable. If it were so important and irreplacable, why'd you leave it on your account for 12 years with having backup copies? -- "Some aboriginal Australians and inhabitants of New Guinea routinely ate part of a dead relative's body as an act of respect and to appease the ghost of the deceased. Everyone involved dreaded the "feast" which was accompanied by almost ceaseless vomiting, spitting, and other signs of disgust, sometimes lasting several days." DEATH TO DUST
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