<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Paul Cartwright <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ale@pcartwright.com">ale@pcartwright.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Wed January 28 2009, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
> About 2 years ago I got a returned email (undeliverable notice) (yes,<br>
> a real one!) from an email I sent in 1998. I had to reread all the<br>
> headers several times before I really believed it. I have a trail of<br>
> old, forwarded email addresses but this was the first time I had seen<br>
> an email make it through 3 server layers and one with dead accounts<br>
> from a decade ago. Amazingly, the initial address to go back to me was<br>
> an ancient Mindspring account (been dead now for 7+ years) that was<br>
> forwarded for about 4 months to another account. That poor email sat<br>
> on a server backup tape until someone restored a machine and off it<br>
> went.<br>
><br>
> Hmm. That brings up an interesting problem - Stale data lying around<br>
> on old backup media.<br>
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</div>that's why I like giving out my domain email, instead of my ISP.. I can't<br>
count on one hand anymore the number of ISP emails I've had... bellsouth,<br>
comcast, mindspring.. yes, I have more than 3 fingers..<br>
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Paul Cartwright<br>
Registered Linux user # 367800<br>
Registered Ubuntu User #12459<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br>I don't know if I can fully relate to this conversation, but ever since I started hosting my own sites, I haven't gone back to using my ISP as an email account. One of these days I'll create an email server at home and really screw things up.<br>
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