Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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Please do not spam at the top level. If you have a lot to post each day, try and post them all together in one top level comment
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Try keep things light. If you are bringing in deep stuff, try not to go overboard.
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Things that are clearly on-topic for this board should be posted as a separate post and not here (except if you are new and still getting the feel of this place)
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If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evoloving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
Ah, it seems that someone thought that emails remain "on the cloud".
I've been using email since about 1991 and I still have every single message on my hard drive (which is backed up to another hard drive) and also archives in another building.
The answer is to keep everything on an external drive AND keep a running copy of that drive (or two). That provides reasonable insurance against loss.
If you communicate via a smart phone and/or tablet, that complicates life a little but there are still methods of copying to a backup device. Of course, you can use cloud services as well, for convenience, but don't use cloud INSTEAD of a backup in your own home or office.
Pardon my lack of tech knowledge, but how does one back up email?
It depends on how you run your email server. If you are using one of the standard softwares available on a Linux server, for instance, you can backup the spool folder where the emails are stored (and you can configure where that folder is).
Aha, that answers it... I just have regular email, not a server🐸
Install an email "client" App on your computer and give it the required parameters to handle your email instead of using a web browser. The email App will then save all emails to your computer.