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Oct. 15th, 2003 04:03 pmDear Carpenter: I solemnly promise I will never delete an entire mailbox again.
Right. Possibly it is in fact saved and archived somewhere, like on that mail archive cd we burnt that time, if I can find it in my room when I go home, but I think I just wasted a good hour going through mail folders hunting for information that isn't there, and I can tell you what folder it would have been in, and that folder isn't there. Doh. (Of course I say this having just deleted a folder of old grad-housing-list mail, but none of that was personally relevant (different folder). Mail server has started a weekly-email-of-disk-usage; I was at 155 out of an acceptable 300 MB but they also say individual mailboxes with more than 1000 messages are excessive. I move sent-mail and certain list mail to archive folders vaguely seasonally, and often hit 1500-2000 before starting a new folder (and there's that 5000+ message chat folder from 02...). I guess I don't know why that would be a problem as long as I stayed below the overall limit though.)
Er, but point: certain people are always telling me how it's a a good idea to save everything and sometimes I make fun of that, but in fact, there are times when it would come in real handy.
Right. Possibly it is in fact saved and archived somewhere, like on that mail archive cd we burnt that time, if I can find it in my room when I go home, but I think I just wasted a good hour going through mail folders hunting for information that isn't there, and I can tell you what folder it would have been in, and that folder isn't there. Doh. (Of course I say this having just deleted a folder of old grad-housing-list mail, but none of that was personally relevant (different folder). Mail server has started a weekly-email-of-disk-usage; I was at 155 out of an acceptable 300 MB but they also say individual mailboxes with more than 1000 messages are excessive. I move sent-mail and certain list mail to archive folders vaguely seasonally, and often hit 1500-2000 before starting a new folder (and there's that 5000+ message chat folder from 02...). I guess I don't know why that would be a problem as long as I stayed below the overall limit though.)
Er, but point: certain people are always telling me how it's a a good idea to save everything and sometimes I make fun of that, but in fact, there are times when it would come in real handy.
