back up horror stories

[Joanna Sheldon]

Well, I know a woman who left the only copy of her just-completed PhD 
thesis on her computer in the house she was living in and one night the 
house burned down.  (She stood in the street in her nightie yelling about 
the last seven years  while the place went up in flames.)  So she asked 
Cornell if they'd let her get her degree anyway based on the work she'd 
done (her committee had seen it).  They refused, but gave her a short 
extension.  Not very funny.

Joanna

At 18:30 18-01-01, you wrote:
>first, anyone remember julian's (from the UK; sociology of music diss) 
>email address.  i recall that he migrated to a provider in the UK, begins 
>with a B, had some problems with a hackers early last summer...  i ask 
>because julian had a funny story about someone who had his diss stored in 
>about 5 different ways.
>
>anyway, i'm looking for (i don't) backup (my files) horror stories.  if 
>you have any funnies or not so funnies to share, let me know.  i might 
>tell the one about bad subjects listers getting resubbed because bad list 
>admin didn't back up the subscriber list as they should.  some of you 
>probably remember how  Carenegie's e-server would go down for days.  when 
>it went back up, a bunch of people, who'd managed to get unsubbed after 
>months of being unable to, would automagically find themselves getting the 
>dreaded mail from the bad subjects list.  heh.
>
>thanks,
>
>kell

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