Comments | gerisullivan: The end of an era?

gerisullivan

The end of an era?

Mar 01, 2015 17:34

Perhaps. MailSteward Pro is 59030 messages into archiving all of my Eudora mailboxes into its database. Thanks for the pointer, pnh! I started by testing the free version of MailSteward on a select number of mailboxes. It archived something in the neighborhood of 34,000 messages and gave me access to 15,001 of those, as the free trial indicated it ( Read more... )

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del_c March 1 2015, 22:55:36 UTC

Good luck. Email programs seem to be the hardest thing to move on from; I still miss Turnpike all these years after being forced by obsolescence to abandon it.

apostle_of_eris March 2 2015, 00:30:17 UTC

I'm not sure which is more amazing; that you got your domain when there were only ten a hundred* thousand, or that you still have twenty year old email.

*(I really wasn't certain, so I checked: "In September 1995, . . . . there were 120,000 registered domain names. In September 1998, when NSF’s agreement with NSI expired, the number of registered domain names had passed 2 million.")

gerisullivan March 2 2015, 01:06:40 UTC

That is truly wonderful to know; thank you! I have it so in my head that I was a late-adopter that it's fun to know that from a different perspective, I was among the early sorts. Seriously, when I started using email, it seemed that all of my friends had been using it forever. They'd been on the Genie SF Roundtables, on the Well, on Fidonet, and before that, telling me about PLATO and what happened on screen when you typed: "The truck ran over the dog." That was way back in 1979-80, and I'm looking at you, coffeeem.

Y'see, I remember the McDonald's signs when they were counting up through the hundred thousands of burgers sold, the location at 812 W. Columbia Ave, Battle Creek, MI, to be precise. Only Over How Many Billions Served suggests I'm misremembering, that they were already counting millions on their way to their first billion, with someone in the comments saying that the McDonald brothers had already sold 15 million when Ray Kroc opened his first outlet. Except I remember those hundreds of thousands so clearly.... The numbers were ( ... )

netmouse March 2 2015, 12:51:22 UTC

I was looking for email on gmail about the first ConFusion I chaired the other day, then realized I wasn't using gmail during the run up to it, I was using a client program. Moment of shock and dismay. Reading your post, I'm wondering if that was on the computer Rosie uses to watch DVDs, but I suspect it was the computer before that and my chances of making backups are nil. That said, I vaguely remember trying to export things, so possibly there's a huge file somewhere that I may or may not be able to read.

netmouse March 2 2015, 16:42:59 UTC

Nope. I checked and that computer doesn't even have a mail client installd d on it.

carbonel March 2 2015, 21:34:39 UTC

I'm still using Eudora, though I am considering other options at this point. It still works with Windows 7 and 8, so I won't be forced to give it up for a while, but it's definitely showing its creakiness in some ways. Gmail made a default formatting change that makes stray characters show up. There's a fix, but it has to be done at the sender's end, not mine.

I can't tell exactly when I started using Eudora, but I'm guessing it was mid-1999, because that's when my earliest archived e-mail dates from. Before that, I used elm (and, reluctantly, pine) via my ISP's telnet interface. I remember being reluctant to give up telnet access, but having easy searching of archived e-mail turned out to be worth the hassle of the switchover.