Backup Copies of Articles
Once every 5 days or so, an author will email us that they deleted their article and want us to go find the original one as they had NO backup.
Question: Instead of sending an email acknowledgement of each article submission, should we be sending a complete copy of the article submitted via email back to the author so that they then have a backup in their inbox?
I thought it was redundant because we assumed the author already had a backup of the article because he or she just submitted it. Turns out quite a few authors are submitting fresh articles that they have no backups of.
Your thoughts?
I guess it would be a nice added feature, but why should EzineArticles.com need to store every article in two places? It’s a privilege to all the authors that all their articles take up space on the directory after they’re approved. The other place that the articles should be stored is on the owner’s hard drive. If it isn’t, that’s nobody else’s fault but the author’s.
Speaking of article backup, I work from two computers and today one of them went kaplooey. Every time I started up, Windows XP booted and then immediately shut down. The computer finally made a wretched croaking sound and, well, I think she’s gone. The now-dead computer is where I happen to do most of my article writing- so all my final drafts are on that hard drive. What I’ll have to do now is take all the articles on this website and repaste them into documents on the still-living computer. This will be a slight annoyance, but I’m just happy they’re safe in their little home on your server(s). I really do appreciate it.
-Dina
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