| From: | John Marchant |
| Date: | 19 Sep 2000 at 02:37:27 |
| Subject: | Re: Email Question (Re: SEAL-O-RAMA) |
In a message on 18-Sep-00 22:57:01, Andrew wrote:
> Actually, you'd be supprised how many emails can accumulate on your
>computer, especially if you're on more then one mailing list and you
>don't delete old ones regularly.
True. Well I delete about 80% of news and mailing list messages
before I've read them - scanning through the subjects list. Then I
'D' 80% of those that remain immediately I've read them. A few I
mark 'K' to keep, and a few I just leave as read. This still leaves
quite a lot on file. I never do a pack/purge, but every 2 or 3
months I look through what's in the database, copy messages with
useful information (or amusing remarks) into my "archive" dirs by
subject and delete them from the database. Then I make a backup to
another partition before doing a "Thor Optimess" run. I try to keep
under 100 messages remaining in each email/mail-list/newsgroup
folder. I currently take 2 newsgroups and about 6 mailing lists, so
I reckon I'm a 'small user' :-)
I have a very large "archives" collection on many subjects, mostly
technical, and they include messages over the past 8 years!
John
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
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