On 10 December 2015 at 20:42, Rich Alderson <ri...@livingcomputermuseum.org> wrote: > From: Liam Proven > Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2015 8:33 AM > >> On 10 December 2015 at 16:54, <et...@757.org>> wrote: >>> Bad news is Gmail never deletes your emails, ever. They remove them from >>> your view but keep it on their servers for profiling you. > >> *I* never delete my emails. I have a trail back to 1994. So? > > Piker.
Um. I don't know what that means. In UK English, "pikey" is a highly offensive pejorative term for a person of Gypsy or Romany origin, or these days, more generically, a person of very lower-class origins: "trailer trash". I am guessing you didn't mean that. :-) So, what, it means I'm very young? I'm fine with that, given I'm nearing 50. :-D > My e-mail archives extend back to the 1970s, stored on 9-track mag tape > (with slight interruptions for job changes--learned that lesson after a > while). > Oh, ;-) I had some too -- I never preserved my old DOS-based OLR/email program Matrix. :-( I only have emails from when I switched to a Windows client onwards. :-( But in 1970, I was 3. I got my first email account at 15Y old, at University. Didn't keep those, either. :-( > On the subject line topic, I read this list via an Exchange/Outlook setup, [...] > Simple. Quick. This must be some strange new usage of the words "simple" and "quick" that I wasn't previously aware of. [To paraphrase Douglas Adams.] ObEditWar: I'm still trying to learn ErgoEmacs, but damn it is hard to love... -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Cell/Mobiles: +44 7939-087884 (UK) • +420 702 829 053 (ČR)