I’ve Lost Your E-Addresses
Posted by: Loren Coleman on October 20th, 2006
During the last few weeks and finally coming to a terrible implosion on Wednesday, October 19, 2006, I have lost all my emails, all my email addresses, and all archived material that I was stupidly keeping stored in e-messages. In total, yesterday, I lost over 60,000 saved emails (the “good ones” collected during the entire time I’ve owned this computer – since 1999).
Lesson learned, of course. I have no one to blame but myself, but I could not make my computer email work or open or be “seen” on yesterday’s wacky Wednesday. I had to clean, clear, dump, delete, trash, and empty trash all day to get back online. I am sure I erased the emails myself to try to get back into a system that is old but has been reliable, even though I did not fully realize that was what was happening. When it finally worked and I got back online, everything was gone.
I need your help, directly, if you have emailed me recently. I have no one’s email addresses, as I said. I have no one’s recent or old emails.
If you sent along a cryptozoological request, ordered a book from me (backed up by PayPal), emailed me with an educational inquiry, shared a photo (please no attachments yet), obtained a possible media interview time or promised one, requested a speaking engagement, promised me money, I have no records of any of those. But I can’t email you; no addresses. My emails were my “memory.”
About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct).
Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015.
Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.
Loren ~
While this may seem to be a monumental catastrophe, it IS survivable ~ have faith in yourself, your powerful name and reputation and your place in the greater scheme of life, and watch what happens!
Fuz
Loren, are you positive there was no hanky panky on someone’s part to get to you? You never know. To some folks, you are a controversial figure because of your unerring search for the truth.
Loren, I have looked up to you and your research since I was a small child and my prayers are with you. I will send you my email for further assistance.
lcoleman{@}maine.rr.com (just remove the “{}” placed here to discourage spam). That “l” in front of “coleman” is a “L” not the numeral “one.”
Yes, a Wednesday overnight attack of spam bombs aimed at my IE software on my Mac did appear to be behind some of it, but conspiracy theories do me no good at this point. I am where I am, and I have to move forward.
Thanks so very much to those that have went ahead and sent money. I have been able to pay for a couple things that have been turned off and that helps. I shall battle onward…
I feel for you Loren. I know what it’s like.
Chris.
I hate it when that happens. The hardest lessons learned, are the lessons best remembered. BACK-UP! It’s the cornerstone of a successful digital filing system.
I promise, if I ever win the lottery i’ll shoot you a big load of cash. You can hold me to that. 😉