8 Mar
2005
8 Mar
'05
12:38 p.m.
Yes, but does anyone here actually save every message?
I delete
everything that's not of interest to me in the present. This doesn't
help me for the future, though, so chances are slim I'd be able to
search my personal archives for references to a previously unknown device.
I'm actually amazed how many people DO save every email.
In fact, most of the people I work with, not only save every email, but
also never move them from their inbox. They just have these huge,
multi-megabyte inbox files (they would be multi-gigabyte, but I have
everyone save for 1 person and myself set to use Eudora, which IMO
properly handles attachments by detaching them from the email when it is
received... so you don't end up with every last 20 MB attachment filling
up your email database).
And then you have my wife, that knows how to delete, and knows how to
file messages... and still has some OCD issue with saving every email
that isn't spam. (I'm the opposite... I throw out just about every email
I get... if it isn't important to my life in some way, it gets junked as
soon as I am done with it).
-chris
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