"This Fair Gift"
Apr. 27th, 2003 02:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pameladeanI had intended to title this entry "I am an Idiot," but I didn't think that would get the right kind of attention.
I recently got email from a college student studying my short story "This Fair Gift," including some questions about the way I arrived at the names of the characters. I decided to answer it after I'd woken up a bit, and then I got overenthusiastic about deleting read messages and I deleted it by mistake. If the person who sent that message is by any chance reading this, I am very sorry, and if you send me your email address I will try to answer the questions. I recall the questions quite well, but not at all the name of the sender.
Pamela
I recently got email from a college student studying my short story "This Fair Gift," including some questions about the way I arrived at the names of the characters. I decided to answer it after I'd woken up a bit, and then I got overenthusiastic about deleting read messages and I deleted it by mistake. If the person who sent that message is by any chance reading this, I am very sorry, and if you send me your email address I will try to answer the questions. I recall the questions quite well, but not at all the name of the sender.
Pamela
mutt and email recovery
Date: 2003-04-27 04:44 pm (UTC)The solution I use for this is to have the procmail receipe make a backup copy of everything, so that if I delete something from the main mailbox by mistake I can fish it out of the backup folder.
Hopefully, something like this may already apply.