You can copy you e-mail boxes/ folders onto a floppy disk. I have my folder if you want a copy but it has my favorites.
At 05:25 PM 3/13/2004 -0700, you wrote:
You know folks, I was setting here thinking a bit ago and had a terrible thought. I have had probably one of the greatest losses of knowledge with this hard drive failure. Over the last several years of being on the vfb, I had saved over 1500 fly patterns and variants tied by the list members and posted to the group. I know there were over that many because I had 1 special file I put them in. Now it is lost, so it seams. I realized just how much I cherished that file, there were so many tying techniques from members on just how they adjusted a fly to work in their particular water. I would refer back to it on countless occasions to see just how Del, Jimmy D., Tony or Don or Joyce or so many other would tie such a pattern. I realized just how elfish I have been over the years, not only is it a loss to me, but unless someone else saved each and every recipe as I had, they are lost to the big bit bucket in the sky, or maybe not. I called a friend of mine a bit ago, he has accepted the "Challenge" to see if he can recover the "VFB Recipes Lost Files", (sounds like a Tom Clancy don't it). "If" he can do it, I am going to find a way to convert and save all that he can recover and then find a way to make them available for everyone, such a task. I guess the point I could make is this, if you have such files, find a way to save them so that they are there for others as well as yourself. Don't end up with the heartache that I just realized I had.
Jimi
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