I am aware that this is OT for SurvPC, but I really dont know anyone
else who can help me with this one..
The grandfather of my girlfriend have died a few months ago.
During his lifetime, especialy recently, he was VERY active on the
internet and with computers in general. He was gifted and
could learn fast, which is how he managed to learn to operate his
computer (a P166, sort of) in a very short time although his very old
age, and started building home-pages and talk via E-Mail for fun.
After he died, my girlfriend have received his computer, which
is when the family have suddenly noticed something..
As I said, her grandfather had several sites on the internet, and
used to talk with many people via E-Mail. And now that he is gone,
the family wanted to download the files of his sites to preserve
them on a diskette or a burned CD as some sort of a monument. but,
nobody knows what was his password!
When I offered to use the "re-send password to E-Mail" option, she
revealed yet another problem: they dont know his E-MAIL password!
The logical step would be, obviously, to contact the tripod webmasters
and ISP. Problem is, is this is a wise step? Can we be certain that
they will not delete the contents of the web-site once they find out
that the person who owned them have died?
Speaking of which, I do not really think that they have a policy for
that.. this entire "free hosting" buisness is so new, that such things
didnt seemed to happen enough times to make them regulate a regulation
about this sort of things.
When can I do? (if you do not wish to answer via the list due to
this letter's OT nature, just E-Mail me privatly.).
Sorry again for the OT.
I never post OT unless I have a very good reason.. hopefully, this
is one of them.
Or Botton
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