From: "Leon Brocard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Paul Makepeace sent the following bits through the ether: > > > The problem is when you have folders with tens of thousands of > > emails (London.pm is about to hit 20k here) > > I've moved my mail from laptop to laptop to new company computer over > the years and it's dawned on me that I never (that is NEVER) need > archives which are more than a week or so old. > > Agressive deletion is the only way. >
I disagree completely. I used to spend quite a lot of time deciding whether to keep mailing list emails or not, well, fractions of seconds per email, but on high volume lists this adds up :-) So I stopped deciding, and now keep everything, which is much faster. I have always kept every personal email, and HD size has grown much faster than the rate I receive/read email, so I have had no problems with storage. I am a natural hoarder though, and quite enjoy browsing old email folders to see what I was up to. I also have copies of course of every email I have ever sent. I use outlook express, which has some searching facilities built in, which are good enough for me. As to actually NEEDING any of this, I expect if i lost the complete email archive and all backups I'd survive, but I'd definitely be a bit upset. /Robert
