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From: John H Meyers on 11 Jan 2010 18:54
On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 01:12:08 -0600:

> no matter how little time email stays in the inbox,
> if it is there at all, for however little time,
> and if recently added email can be lost in a crash during that time,
> there is a big problem.

Have you ever noticed that, for adults,
life insurance premiums always increase with a person's age?

By the same token, if there were an insurance company
willing to issue policies against trashing of mail
in Eudora's permanent built-in mailboxes,
actuaries who examine the statistics
would know to charge premiums that increase
with the amount of messages stored in these mailboxes,
because it has been long observed that the risks increase accordingly,
particularly in older versions of Eudora (a final improvement was reportedly
made even in the upgrade from 7.0 to 7.1, according to Katrina Knight,
though I don't know exactly what changes were made to the program).

If you want some free extra insurance for recent messages,
you can "leave mail on server" for some number of days.
If you then happen to lose any incoming mail that's still
on your incoming server(s), you can always arrange to fetch it again.

Unless you also arrange some other external backup,
you will always be at some risk for loss of everything -- after all,
your disk could completely crash, or your computer burn up in a fire;
how much "insurance" you wish to arrange for varying possibilities
is always up to you, but to say that since neither you nor your computer
has yet suffered some other loss than your recent one,
there's no point in arranging any insurance at all,
is being a bit like the proverbial ostrich,
even if real ostriches themselves don't actually bury their heads in sand :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostrich

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From: John H Meyers on 11 Jan 2010 19:13
On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:56:33 -0600, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:

> I've had full Eudora logging in place, and it can log-in, query for
> the number of new messages, and then hangs when it requests the first
> message be transferred...

> It isn't just POP3 -- a few months ago the NNTP fetch stopped
> transferring...

> Also... While I can get to "my" pages on Earthlink (eg:
> http://home.earthlink.net/~baron.wulfraed/ ), I can not open the
> Earthlink homepage itself! (hard to submit a trouble report when you
> can't open the submittal page).

> Additional problem sites: Microsoft Update! When the update system
> goes to the "checking for current software" stuff it hangs and times
> out. But if I use dial-up to get through the initial phases, down to
> where one selects the packages to be updated, and THEN disconnect the
> dial-up, the actual packages will download and install!

[...]

So it isn't Eudora -- it's Windows, the DSL modem or other local equipment,
its driver, or Earthlink itself, or that some of these don't get along with others.

Given enough time, everything can be done over dial-up anyway :)

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