Journal SharpFang's Journal: I loathe spammers. 2
Okay, there's a little bit of fault on my side. But if there was less spam, it wouldn't happen.
Today I got an email from someone who wanted to order a story. Yes, one of my zooish stories. I never thought anybody would ever think they would be worth money, I always thought myself "nerd for profit, zoo for pleasure". And today this guy writes he read my stories in Mia's anthro stories index, and would like to pay me to write a story.
I didn't have time to answer right there, so I quickly quit Pine, confirmed expunge of all the spam I had marked before and moving read messages to "read" folder, and went to do what I had to do. Later I logged in, checked "Old messages" and the post was nowhere to be found. All the mailing lists were there, 2 Re:'s of a new fan of my stories I was talking with recently and nothing more.
Apparently my mind worked like this: No "Re:", no "[" no subject that would really mean it's NOT spam - so it's a spam, marked it for deletion and deleted.
I fumbled around a bit. The backup account was down during that time (Thank you ISP) so I didn't get the message backed up. There was no other copy. I have no access to logs. This is an OpenBSD, no such thing as undelete for common users. Lost - permanently.
Good bye, first potential paid story request.
Thank you, spammers.
A shame. (Score:2)
Do you have root on whatever box that controls the physical drive on which pine happens to keep its temporary files? Because if that partition doesn't use an uber-unforgiving filesystem like XFS (which zeroes out unlinked sectors), you may have a snowball's chance in hell if you grab an image of the partition, even though it's about a day after the fact.
Re:A shame. (Score:2)
I don;t know much about the BSD ffs but I guess recovery wouldn't be easy even if the admin allowed that.