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 Message 451 
 Bob Seaborn to Dan Egli 
 Call for vote 
 01 May 04 09:41:00 
 
 >
 >BS>       Their $$ would be returned as we're not currently accepting
 >BS> Allfix registrations until some problems are solved, and some
 >BS> decisions made.
 >
 > Oh? like what if you don't mind my asking.

      If I didn't like, I would not have replied.

 >
 >BS>       Maybe later this summer.
 >
 > Ok...
 >BS>       Anyhow, you were initially advised in the registration notes to
 >BS> make a backup of keys and such, and keep them in a safe place.  Why
 >BS> didn't you?
 > As I said earlier. I did. The backup was on a floppy. After the failure
 > I retrieved the floppy from it's storage place, inserted it, and found
 > that the disk had gone bad. Bad sectors all throughout the email and the
 > .SCS file. Completely unrecoverable.


      Gee, you could have printed the keycode, then typed it in manually.  ANY
.scs file issued _after_ your registration date will do.

      Floppys are only useful for maybe 6 months, beyond that luck controls
whether data can be recovered from it or not.

 >
 >BS>       Finally, this echo is NOT the proper place for this type of
 >BS> discussion, therefore I will no longer respond to anyone on this
 >BS> subject.  My apologies for the off-topic stuff Janis.
 > Thats why I moved it to Allfix_help. Hopefully we can contine it there.


      There's not much to continue.

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