8 Mar
2005
8 Mar
'05
5:37 p.m.
chris wrote:
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).
Jerome Fine replies:
While I DELETE 95% of the incoming e-mails (most
are from 2 lists), I do keep almost ALL private
e-mails.
In addition, I keep every spam e-mail until the end
of the year. If the total is above a certain limit,
I change my e-mail address. The biggest advantage
of shifting from dialup to high speed was that I had
to change my e-mail address. Spam dropped from 30 per
day to zero for the next year. So far this year it is
a total of 74. I can cope with about one a day considering
the total just on this list. One thing that I tend to
do as a precaution is that when I start to determine
which incoming e-mails should be deleted, I first
disconnect the system from the internet (unplug the RJ45).
Some e-mails attempt to connect directly to an internet
address. If the internet connection is not working, this
tends to be an added protection. The disconnect takes
about 3 seconds since I added a second RJ45 cable and a
female to female connector right beside the keyboard.
Does anyone else do this as well?
Sincerely yours,
Jerome Fine
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