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. 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. 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/
