Re: FLASH: Flash email management/archiving?

[Sienna Design]

Eudora can write to ASCII... you can save your emails in a text format.  If

there aren't programs around in 2034 that can read an email with the

extention *.txt then I'd say we were taken over by super intelligent

species that don't require the use of computers anymore and in that case..

who's going to care about reading email in 20 years??? hahahahah


At 02:52 PM 3/1/99 -0500, you wrote:

>Sienna Design mentioned using Eudora. I'm sure Eudora is a great app...but

>the problem is, how do read your email in 20 years? What if Eudora isn't

>around, and your current copy won't run on Windows 2034? <g>

>

>I guess there's a larger issue which I'm really surprised hasn't been

>addressed by the software community at large, which is, how do we archive

>our digital transmissions for the long-term? (I think government agencies

>are starting to grapple with this one.)

>

>If some bright developer came up with a "universal email translator" program

>that could read from all popular email formats and write everything to ASCII

>text, they'd make a fortune!

>

>I know, I know--who wants to save all that mail? Good point. But even if I

>save just the most valuable messages, I've still got hundreds!

>

>Scott

>

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