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British Library Starts Email Archive
sushi writes "Australian IT is reporting
that 'The British Library is creating an archive to store the emails of the nation's top authors and scientists, as the written word is replaced by electronic messages.' A spokeswoman says it welcomes emails from prominent people in all walks of life.
"We want people with a canon of work behind them," she says. The article also talks of the need to read data from (now) obsolete computing platforms..."
As the first post, I welcome my mail to be submitted to this archive...
ok, who let that one through? :)
Iran has endorsed
I could send them my punch card reader. I still keep some of my best pr0n on those cards.
Just have Google give everyone a GMail account. Then not only can you store all of their political and scientific mail, they can get targeted advertisements about who to vote for and for whats new in science
Put Gmail password in escrow with pointer in will.
Brits are reading your emails. SHOCK AND AWE!!
Dear Tony
It doesn't matter. we're not going into Eyeraq
for the Weapons. We're after the oil....
George
>Dear George
>
>Do we really have the evidence to go to war in
>the middle east? I only ask becuase our
>intelligence people aren't really sure enough.
>
>Could it be that we're making a mistake?
>
>RSVP
>
>Tony
I was thinking blackmail but that works, too.
I think you'll be OK. They did say TOP scientists. ;) :P
>>>Light is a wave! I can prove it.
>> No its not, light is a particle! I can prove it
> You ninny!
Neil is that you? Yeah yeah, it's me... Neil...
Then I thought of the Salmon of Doubt, the book of the scraps of electronic data found on Douglas Adams HDD. But his emails?
Yes letters can be well penned, but is every author going to vainly CC: their emails to a library?
Should they be digitally signed? Oh lawks, Micheal Jackson just emailed me and asked if he could use my toilet [goonies]
Seems dumb to me. Email is such a throw-away medium.
If Shakespeares SMS's were saved, would be citing:
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Email is for email. Anyone know any good librarian pr0n sites?
#hostfile 0.0.0.0 primidi.com 0.0.0.0 www.primidi.com 0.0.0.0 radio.weblogs.com
George W. Bush, of course, esp. wrt the illegal war in Iraq.
Oh, canon, not cannon. Never mind.
Don't worry. He's on the list. Any future email from Douglas Adams will be archived and stored in a secure chamber deep below the earth's crust. We've got Tolkein's address watched too (elfluva@hotmail.com BTW).
Dear Eva,
I was pleased to see you at the potluck last night. Your casserole was fabulous - you'll simply have to share the recipe with me sometime.
The Schmidts seem like very nice people. It's so wonderful to see such a happily married couple these days. I really do wish them all the best.
Are we still on for the motor trip up to the city this weekend? I know this great little place that I think you'll just love. Anyway, I hope to hear from you soon.
Lovingly yours,
Adolf
We can finally get proof that bill gates is knowingly running a monopoly. Steve: so billy what do you want to do today. Bill: plot to take over the world... wohahahah (sig) wohahahahahah Steve: billy that is what we do every night though.. Bill: whacks steve on the head. shudd up and keep lobbying against evil open source. It's stevey, stevey and the brain (gates). (END SIG)!
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It's recorded with mostly the original cast, and how beautiful the irony that Douglas Adams, for it is he, is voicing the part of Agrajag. Not bad for a dead man. I do hear the tax breaks are good though.
"We have one machine, belonging to evolutionary biologist James Lovelock, for which we don't have a power supply cable."
I'm sending them a spare power cable of mine. Very hard to come by these days with all those modern wireless computers.
This is your sig. There are thousands more, but this one is yours.
It would probably be a good idea for them to accept email from EVERYONE and sort through it later.
Lets see;
A good idea? Really?!
I'm sure the NSA already has copies of all emails ever written, so the British Library just needs to ask them nicely....
>To: tracey.emin@hotmail.com
> Hi Tracey,
> how's the work going?
Fuck off! Haven't done anything this week. Can't be bothered.
Saatchi brought a box full of my old rubbish yesterday. 20 thousand quid!!! What a twat!!
> You on for going out tonight?
Too right! Let's go get fucking wasted!
Trace xxx