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Thursday, August 11th, 2011 21:07![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sofiaviolet... or so sayeth the boyfriend, about my saving of correspondence.
Today I decided to configure Mail to serve as a local backup for my Google-Apps-For-Your-Domain account (I think it's working? yay). Backing up that inbox will also back up all my other GAFYD accounts, my undergraduate and graduate school email, and my old Gmail accounts,* so I really hope it works. (And then Time Machine will back up my backup. Whee.)
I haven't used Mail in years; not since getting my first Gmail account way back when. But I did still have saved mailboxes from long, long ago, so I hunted them up on my manual-backup drive** and imported them.
You guys, I now have emails going back to 2003-02.*** I had just turned fifteen. I hadn't even been on LiveJournal a full year. I was still really actively into Harry Potter and just entering my Stereotypical Teenage Wiccan phase. I was a freshman in high school. I was probably still using Internet Explorer. I think I was still booting my laptop into Mac OS 9. (I was... pretty much the opposite of an early adopter when it came to OS X.)
* How to dump ALL THE EMAIL in one inbox: enable POP for all mail on the source account and add it to the destination account (note than Gmail only lets you get mail from five other accounts; I have... more than five. I added each one to the destination account for the initial download of messages, then switched POP to "messages from now on" and moved the least important ones to my secondary account, creating a kind of POP cascade that means I get new emails to those very old addresses, it just takes a while).
** Manual-backup drive contains all my old, panicked backups from the days before Time Machine. It shares physical space with the Time Machine partition, and media lives in a separate external. There are also manual backups on a Firewire drive that I really should move before I wind up without a Firewire port.
*** I know I had some other backups that may have been even older, but I couldn't find them. Even so, it's kind of mind-blowing that I can go back to 2003.
Link is unrelated to the above blathering.
laughingrat: We're not all liberals
Today I decided to configure Mail to serve as a local backup for my Google-Apps-For-Your-Domain account (I think it's working? yay). Backing up that inbox will also back up all my other GAFYD accounts, my undergraduate and graduate school email, and my old Gmail accounts,* so I really hope it works. (And then Time Machine will back up my backup. Whee.)
I haven't used Mail in years; not since getting my first Gmail account way back when. But I did still have saved mailboxes from long, long ago, so I hunted them up on my manual-backup drive** and imported them.
You guys, I now have emails going back to 2003-02.*** I had just turned fifteen. I hadn't even been on LiveJournal a full year. I was still really actively into Harry Potter and just entering my Stereotypical Teenage Wiccan phase. I was a freshman in high school. I was probably still using Internet Explorer. I think I was still booting my laptop into Mac OS 9. (I was... pretty much the opposite of an early adopter when it came to OS X.)
* How to dump ALL THE EMAIL in one inbox: enable POP for all mail on the source account and add it to the destination account (note than Gmail only lets you get mail from five other accounts; I have... more than five. I added each one to the destination account for the initial download of messages, then switched POP to "messages from now on" and moved the least important ones to my secondary account, creating a kind of POP cascade that means I get new emails to those very old addresses, it just takes a while).
** Manual-backup drive contains all my old, panicked backups from the days before Time Machine. It shares physical space with the Time Machine partition, and media lives in a separate external. There are also manual backups on a Firewire drive that I really should move before I wind up without a Firewire port.
*** I know I had some other backups that may have been even older, but I couldn't find them. Even so, it's kind of mind-blowing that I can go back to 2003.
Link is unrelated to the above blathering.
laughingrat: We're not all liberals Cataloging as a tool for social (in)justice: In EBSCO's Academic Search Complete, articles discussing women's anger at men for actual, real-life, systemic violence and discrimination towards women are given the "MISANDRY" subject label, implying that calling out oppressive behaviors is "man-hating" and unreasonable. Articles about these actual, real-life, systemic crimes--rape, spouse abuse, incest, sexual harassment, etc.--are not, however, given the subject heading "MISOGYNY," despite research on an ongoing basis demonstrating that violence against marginalized persons is absolutely a systemic, not an individual, issue.
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Date: 2011-08-12 03:28 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-15 13:38 (UTC)(In my case, it helps to have these timestamped things I can look at, because my memory is so spotty. Hence also the journal.)