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British Library Starts Email Archive

Posted by timothy on from the what-about-peter-okoeguale dept.

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..."

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  1. Speaking of Obsolute... by pegasustonans · · Score: 1, Redundant

    My computing platform is so extrom, while yours is an obsolute piece of jenk.

    Obsolute: adj.; to be completely and absolutely obselete

    Extrom: please see "sense of humor"

    Jenk: n.; some guy I used to know that worked at the pharmacy, it probably wasn't his real name

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  2. I think by wikinerd · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I think it would be better to accept emails from everyone. It is more interesting to see the emails of a great scientist before he/she became one, instead of after it.

  3. It's already done by poptones · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Now the british government has an excuse for making ISPs keep those gigabytes of internet traffic records on all their users...

  4. Re:Let History Decide by quintessent · · Score: 1, Redundant

    This sounds like a job for...

    Gmail.

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