[Hallicrafters] Lesson Learned

[Troglodite at aol.com]

In a message dated 1/20/03 11:13:12 AM Central Standard Time, rdhalste at tm.net 
writes:

> You'd think a guy who lives, eats, and sleeps computers would have known
>  better...Guess I'll have to chalk it up to lack of ambition.

Roger,

I think what you describe has probably happened to most of us, and if it 
hasn't, it will. I used to run a BBS, and had a big sign over my computers 
which read: "Blessed are the Pessimists, for they hath made backups." It was 
a lot easier in the DOS days, without all the thousands of interlocked files 
we now have. You have my sympathy. If your truly value your files, I have two 
suggestions. Either buy a streaming tape drive and do regular backups, or 
consider networking to a second computer whose sole purpose is to store 
copies of your critical files. Networking a couple of computers used to be a 
big deal, but is now pretty simple.

I like your idea of creating a database of relevant posts and indexing them. 
I've done this sort of thing on occasion, and found that for a presentable 
look you need to expect to do a fair amount of editing.

Good luck and 73,

Doug Moore