This message is for my friends and colleagues, with whom I am in regular contact.
As happens from time to time, the hard drive on  my computer was corrupted and had to be replaced. Fortunately, due to warning  signs, I got the machine into the shop just in the nick of time, before a total  crash.  Unfortunately, I lost a number of files, including all my stored e-mail  files between 2010-2011, and my address book was also wiped  out.
For security reasons, I had to change my e-mail  address (which is always private). So for those of my regular contacts who  are reading this, please do NOT send me e-mail at the old address. I will NOT  receive it, but you will NOT receive notice of same.
To reconstruct my address book, I will look up as  many e-mail addresses as I can (at least those which are available on the  Internet), but I will NOT have access to any private e-mail addresses which have  been given to me.
If you have sent me e-mail from Thursday,  October 13 to today, I will NOT have received it. If you have sent me messages  (documents, etc.) which you deem to be important, at any time during 2010 or  2011, they have been wiped out and will need to be resent,  if possible.
If you are a friend/colleague with whom I'm in  regular contact, you will have my telephone number (unless it has been  misplaced, which sometimes happens).  Please call me and I will give you my new  e-mail address on the phone. If you don't have my telephone number (which is  unlisted), the only way to contact me is at my postal mailing address (given here).
Sorry for any inconvenience to  you.
Thank you for your  consideration.
Barbara Hartwell Percival
October 18, 2011
Barbara Hartwell Percival
Legal Defense &  Research Trust
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