[OT] oldest e-mail?

Well as a rule I keep everything, and try to archive it in different folders by the month, so the inbox doesn't take a year to load. But I'm on a few email groups, and get a lot of spam, and the other day set up about 20 rules on OE to put stuff in a load of dedicated folders for this that and the other. It makes it a whole lot easier to highlight and delete the spam, as 99% of what's left is spam.

I've had a couple of hard disk failures in the last couple of years, so a lot of old mails are lost and gone forever - only goes back to the start of 2004.

-- Peter

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Got stuff archived back to August '99 on CD-ROM somewhere.

Turnpike mailspool from 1996.

Don't have anything earlier than that.

Richard

Before that, everything was on the University mainframe, and not archived anywhere.

Oldest I have ATM is 2000, but I did have a good clear out about 6 months ago, and dumped about 3k emails that were old, out of date, or just un filtered junk and s**te.

My Turnpike environment has been migrated from Windows 3.1 to 2000 via

Prior to that, I used a local ISP on the Mac, which is lost now, and before that it wasn't t'internet for me, it was Fidonet and BBSen on Apple II and Mac/Lisa-MacXL.

I could cheat, and dig around my older boxes. I know I once had an SGI Indy with email from 1994 on it, and one NeXT had email from 1992.

Richard

No doubt I could find some bits and pieces on 3.5" floppy if I dig out the Amiga, but I really can't see the point.

I had some from, iirc 1998/1999 before the great western digital 120 disaster of 2004....

wow you took your amiga online! i remember my A1200 whatta beast that was hehe in the loft i think now along with the A500, i must of been like 8-10 years old when i was using them hehe. remember my mate giving me a disk with some scans out of some sci fi mag he had and the amiga would take years just to load up a 100k jpg file :)

never took my amiga online, internet was way exspensive back then and well there was f*ck all on it, might of even been text only still! i didn't see the net till my dad brought home his high quality B&W laptop back from the BBC (where he used to work at the time) complete with 9k modem :)

If you want to relive those glory days, I'll sell you a nice A500 Plus with A570 CD-ROM ;)

Got an A1200 here, sold it to a friend - it's got a 40MHz '030 and 32Mb RAM, plus 3Gb HD. Horrid thing, I can't stand Amigas - so much wasted potential for the sake of saving a few bucks. Still, not quite as bad as the Atari Falcon for missing the boat.

Richard

That's what I have in the garage. Still have a couple of the old B&W dotmatrix printers I used with it, too. (I couldn't justify the cost of an LC10 Colour at the time)

My inbox goes back to 98 - I have some usenet posts going back to 93 or so....

Oldest emails I have are fidonet stuff from 88/89 on amiga floppies...

I have no idea why.

Mason

You were sending emails in 1990 when you were 7 years old?

I've always been into comuters and I think I still have the machine the e-mails where sent to/from in the loft somewhere. I presume they are on there still :o)

Sad I know but i'm a hoarder.

Mason

Me too - people's travel patterns between home and work has always fascinated me.

-- Peter

Get Circumcised to e-mail me

:o( must be more carefull.

COMPUTERS.

that's better :o)