On 20 Feb 2010 22:06:47 GMT, "-C' 0-SM'oS," <oze@Zat.c0m> wrote:
>HMS Victor Victorian <victorvictorian@hushmail.com> wrote in
>news:qph0o5hrqd8j7ojk6h6st09ilieng7pb71@4ax.com:
>
>> Dear Comrade,
>>
>> I've just acquired your latest offerings, and am indeed grateful for
>> the completeness for which you strive. It has been quite the boon for
>> me.
>>
>> You see, when I began collecting at the close of the last century, my
>> third most pressing concern (the first being the very object of
>> collection and the second making the first secure!) was storage. Can
>> you recall when moving from a zip drive to a CD format was quite the
>> thing in that regard? Had I only known what was to come! Due to the
>> constraints on storing massive collections, I determined to only keep
>> those items that were of GREATEST interest to me, and one need not be
>> a detective to deduce what THAT was! Ha!
>>
>> Your presentation of these wonderful essays in full now allows me to
>> complete what I very probably should not have excluded before.
>>
>> My sincere thanks,
>>
>> HMS Victor Victorian, NP-g18
>>
>> God Save The Queen
>> God Preserve the Prince of Wales
>> Rule Britannia!
>>
>Greetings Victor
>
>Thank you for your nice comments.
>
>Much as I would like to claim credit for the material, which I
>periodically make offerings, I have to confess it is very much the
>product of many heads and intense hours of teamwork largely waged by
>others over very many years.
>
>Often their attention to detail leaves me wondering if they were "Train
>spotters" in another life!
>
>One of the nice tricks I learned was the use of hyperlinks to link the
>works of photographer X that may span several published works and mixed
>with other photographers. Which means I only need one example of the
>photo but can access it from multiple locations within my archive.
>Necessary for good house keeping as my Doublepix DB is over 2 mb
>
>Oh how true the march of increasing storage space, life is so much easier
>with 2tb disks Gulp! Wonder how many CD's I would need to back up three?
>
>ATB
>Cosmos
>PS are you aquatinted with the use of PGP
>
>Its usefull such as with the little note I just noticed morph has penned
>to me.
>As only myself and probably 2000 of the highest clearance CIA can decode
>it
I blush now to confess my ignorance, for I know next to nothing
regarding PrettyGoodProtection and have never used such, confining my
security needs to Hushmail--yes, I fear I am that mundane! If you
feel it would be worthwhile, you certainly may email me at my hush
account with your advice and suggestions. That would be quite nice of
you, actually.
Thank you!
V
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