04-19-2003, 10:06 AM | #1 (permalink) |
I am the anomaly.
Location: Motown
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Are you an email pack-rat ?
How many of us horde our email? Personally, I have email going back to January of 2000. I have a set of rules that distributes the email into it's own folders, and leave it there. It's not like they take up alot of space or anything...
And I've been pretty happy I've done this. There have been several times I've gone back and pulled something out of an email I got way back when ... Am I the only one who's obsessive about this? |
04-19-2003, 10:10 AM | #2 (permalink) |
Crazy
Location: Dallas, TX
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The only email I've ever saved is a bunch from last year when I sold a lot of expensive items on auction sites, and I held them to about the time when they could no longer do a bullshit credit-card chargeback, then I deleted them. Other than that my inbox is bare, but I don't do alot of mail between friends anyway. And I'm a student so theres no mass work email :P
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04-19-2003, 11:24 AM | #6 (permalink) |
Tilted
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I run an email server at work, I hate email pack rats, because they leave their email on the server, and I am not allowed to limit the size because management wants unlimited space on their email boxes. I argue with people daily about this.
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04-19-2003, 11:24 AM | #7 (permalink) |
Buffering.........
Location: Wisconsin...
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I have a spare machine I use for email backup...I've worked on customers computers that were in excess fo 3gigs of saved email.....its amazing sometimes what people will save.
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04-19-2003, 12:17 PM | #8 (permalink) |
Psycho
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You need to check out <a href="http://www.caelo.com/">Neo</a> it lets you organize your email much better then outlook. If you have seen the beta of the next version of Outlook they stole most of the ideas from this product.
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04-19-2003, 12:22 PM | #9 (permalink) | |
Human
Administrator
Location: Chicago
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Anyways, I have over 500 e-mails in my account. All read. On day I should really clean that out. I'd have a ton more but every now and then I accidentally wipe them out |
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04-19-2003, 12:52 PM | #11 (permalink) |
Crazy
Location: Leicestershire UK
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I love my email
I am so pleased that I have just gotten fetchmail setup to collect my three different email inboxs SquirrelMail setup to display it (webmail based - I like that I can acccess all my email from wherever I am and whichever computer I want (yes it does work in lynx)) It also has spamassasin setup to kill just about all spam So I think I have the perfect email setup And yes - I plan to keep all my email forever - I have a huge amount of folders/filters/highlights
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04-19-2003, 05:48 PM | #16 (permalink) |
Junkie
Location: Pa, USA
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I was quite the email pack-rat until I switched over to PocoMail (from Outlook Express).
Upon switching over, I only imported the most important emails I had in Outlook, which was 25-50. Yet already I am starting to save emails anew at an alarming rate.
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04-19-2003, 07:12 PM | #18 (permalink) |
Insane
Location: between lost and confused
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i save it all: inbox, deleted, sent, everything. i have just over 6 years of it saved. there are many times when i have gone back and found just what i needed. it is multiple files and i back it up monthly. it now takes 3 cds (i do save all the joke mpegs.
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04-20-2003, 06:50 AM | #21 (permalink) | |
Pro Libertate
Location: City Gecko
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Me "So please tell me why you think you needed ALL the restaurant menus from 1999" Them "Because I don't know how to turn the rule off in outlook" Me thinks how did this person get to be FVP or whatever. Myself of course keep mail for six months for CYA purposes and then purge to folder for archiving (read deletion). Personal mail is different usually gets purged every couple of weeks or so unless it has some serious relevance.
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04-20-2003, 07:44 AM | #23 (permalink) |
Quadrature Amplitude Modulator
Location: Denver
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I use procmail to filter my mail to several different mailboxes depending on source etc. The great thing is, it saves each copy into a backup folder's mailboxes too (so I can freely trim the mailboxes I actually read on a frequent basis).
At this point I think I've got mail back to about March 1999, totaling about 1GB, >300,000 messages (the majority are pretty small), etc. etc..
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04-20-2003, 07:53 AM | #24 (permalink) |
Upright
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I have email going back to my first days on the net, which would be, like 1997. I just archive on occasion so it doesn't slow things down. It has actually been a big help. There have been a coupel times when I needed to look up when I ordered something or when I first registered with a website. It is also nice to have a record of the people I was getting to know online back then.
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