[ale] Oh Crap....

[Paul Cartwright]

On Wed January 28 2009, Jim Kinney wrote:
> About 2 years ago I got a returned email (undeliverable notice) (yes,
> a real one!) from an email I sent in 1998. I had to reread all the
> headers several times before I really believed it. I have a trail of
> old, forwarded email addresses but this was the first time I had seen
> an email make it through 3 server layers and one with dead accounts
> from a decade ago. Amazingly, the initial address to go back to me was
> an ancient Mindspring account (been dead now for 7+ years) that was
> forwarded for about 4 months to another account. That poor email sat
> on a server backup tape until someone restored a machine and off it
> went.
>
> Hmm. That brings up an interesting problem - Stale data lying around
> on old backup media.

that's why I like giving out my domain email, instead of my ISP.. I can't 
count on one hand anymore the number of ISP emails I've had... bellsouth, 
comcast, mindspring.. yes, I have more than 3 fingers..


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Paul Cartwright
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