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Discussion Groups / English Usage / January 2010Message for Peter Moylan
I tried e-mailing this to Peter Moylan using his address from the message I was reading, but it came back saying the address was "unrouteable". If anyone else decides to read the rest of this, bear in mind that you are poking your nose into Peter's mail. On Sat, 09 Jan 2010 21:52:58 +1100, in alt.usage.english Peter wrote: [...] > Bob Cunningham used to collect such files, but that collection has > no value given that Bob is no longer an aue regular. I still save all of alt.usage.english, uk.culture.language.english, alt.english.usage, and alt.language.english. I still have all of it, with AUE and AEU starting with, I think, mid-February 1996 with a couple of exceptions. I think I started saving UCLE about the time it started. I don't remember when I started saving ALE, but it was a few years ago. Each month is a separate file, in "UNIX format", and all of the messages are complete with headers. I have the full archive on a 4-gig USB Flash Drive (backed up on another one). It uses most of the 4 gigs. The exceptions are a couple of month's worth that I accidentally and irreparably clobbered. (I guess "irreparably" is a relative term. I've now and then given some thought to possible but quite laborious ways of recovering as much as possible of the missing months from whatever has chanced to survive the devastation at Google Groups, but I've never gone farther than thinking about it.) I'm not sure why I'm still saving the stuff. I guess I've never thought I've reached a good stopping place. Habit is a strong master. I seldom read any of it, but I do take a minute or so now and then to search globally to see if anyone is mentioning my name or any of my noms de clavier. That's why I found your remark quoted above. If you'd like to have the data on a flash drive, I can send it to you, along with information on what the drive and postage cost me, in case you would want to reimburse me for them. If you want the stuff, it might be best to be quick about it. I'll be 88 in March, and although I'm in reasonably good health so far as I know, I suspect the grim reaper is beginning to have thoughts about me.  SignatureBob Cunningham, Southern California, USA. Western American English >I tried e-mailing this to Peter Moylan using his address from the >message I was reading, but it came back saying the address was >"unrouteable". Peter's email address is in the headers of his messages with the characters in reverse order: gro.nalyomp@retep It is necessary to retype it. As you can see it ends with .org. SignaturePeter Duncanson, UK (in alt.usage.english) >I tried e-mailing this to Peter Moylan using his address from the > message I was reading, but it came back saying the address was [quoted text clipped - 43 lines] > know, I suspect the grim reaper is beginning to have thoughts about > me. What a pleasant surprise to hear from you! I, for one, have been missing you. May God bless so you may live long! CK "chance" <cinci_kr@yahoo.co.kr> wrote >> Bob Cunningham, Southern California, USA. Western American English > > What a pleasant surprise to hear from you! I, for one, have been missing you. > May God bless so you may live long! When is your birthday in March? Tell me so I, for one, won't forget sending you a congratulatory meesage on the day. CK > I tried e-mailing this to Peter Moylan using his address from the > message I was reading, but it came back saying the address was > "unrouteable". Hello Bob, I'm sending this reply both to your e-mail address and via the newsgroup, because the last mail I sent to you (a few months ago) bounced. I no longer recall whether the address I used was the same as the one I'm now using. As an anti-spam measure, my own address is given here in reverse order. It starts with "peter@" and continues on from there with a domain name that is derived from my first initial and surname, followed by ".org". > On Sat, 09 Jan 2010 21:52:58 +1100, in alt.usage.english Peter wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > with AUE and AEU starting with, I think, mid-February 1996 with a > couple of exceptions. I wasn't thinking of an archive of the newsgroup itself, but in fact this might be valuable material, because Goggle Groups doesn't seem to have archived anything earlier than November 1997. (I'm pretty sure that DejaNews went back well before that, but it appears that much of the DejaNews database was lost when Google acquired it.) What I had in mind with the above comment was a set of audio files showing the pronunciations of a sample of people. Since writing that, I've realised that there is an audio archive at http://alt-usage-english.org/audio_archive.shtml but it doesn't have your name on it. Now I don't know whether this is a copy of your own audio archive, or whether I'm simply misremembering whether you had such a thing. To the best of my knowledge, the person who now maintains the above web site is Mike Barnes. Back to the topic of newsgroup archives: it has just occurred to me to look for the DejaNews archives by going to the Wayback Machine at http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://dejanews.com and searching for archives of the now-defunct web site http://dejanews.com. Unfortunately, all I could find there was a link that redirected me to Google. That's a pity, because usually the Wayback machine is good for finding archives of now-defunct web sites, or at least those that still existed by 1996. My own former web site at http://eepjm.newcastle.edu.au is archived from 1996 until well into 2005, at which time I moved most of the content to my present domain, and at various times I've found it good for keeping snapshots of other web sites. SignaturePeter Moylan, Newcastle, NSW, Australia. http://www.pmoylan.org For an e-mail address, see my web page. |
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