On Wed, 04 Jun 2003 14:55:23 +0930, Greg Mayman wrote: > On Sun, 01 Jun 2003 10:00:05 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote:
>> Maybe you misunderstand me. Due to laziness my email index frequently >> has around two hundred old messages in it. Then I download new ones, > Hmmm... why would you want to keep all those messages in the Inbox, and > then add MORE???? If you're ever going to read the older ones, you > should do it BEFORE you download the new ones, IMO. > Otherwise they get so old they are no longer relevant, so you might as > well right-click on them and delete them now. >> Usually I do something else during downloads, so they don't bother >> me. And I don't want to bother with a two step procedure of >> downloading headers and then messages. But that's my preferance. > It is already a two step procedure to first scan the mail to delete the > spam and then come back later to read/answer the rest. I am experimenting with the markasold feature and it seems to make the sorting out easier... not bothering the whole bunch of mail already in the inbox. Now I heve just to deal with the new ones. > The advantage in deleting the spam BEFORE the download is that it saves > download time and disk space. But the disk space is reclaimed anyway when > you delete the spam after the download. When I am away for a while a huge pile of mail is waiting and my provider let me see (and delete) on a webmail basis what is in the mailbox... but I have to use win ;-) This takes a lot of time with on line reading and on a daily basis with not that much messages to handle the download time is fare less than to on line viewing and deleting the unwanted messages. CU, Bastiaan > from Greg Mayman, in Adelaide, South Australia > "Queen City of the South" 34:55S 138:36E > http://homepages.picknowl.com.au/greg_mayman/default.htm > -- Arachne V1.71;UE01, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ ************************* Technische Redactie CQ-PA Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ ************************* Attentie: e-mail adres bij Wanadoo niet meer gebruiken! [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.hetnet.nl/~ba8tian/index.html -- Virusvrij e-mailen? => Arachne browser/mailer -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client
