As a few of you know, I never really bother deleting e-mail that's come from mailing lists once it hits my computer. This is stems from the fact that most lists I'm on are work related, and form a great local archive of collected and searchable knowledge. I also have a huge great big shouty computer with huge disks, loads of memory and a silly processor in it. So I'm swapping files around last night to try and optimise Outlook's performance, given that there's several hundred megabytes of mailing list material in total. Now... here's the stunning bit. Since I joined the JMDL on Feb 19th 1999, I have accrued just over 200 megabytes of Joni list e-mail. That's an awful lot of e-mail, kids :) It might be that this figure would normally be larger, because Outlook at least attempts to squish its folder sizes down, given that text compresses very well. But, you know, whatever. I just think it's a deeply impressive number. 200,000,000 characters, less some e-mail headers and stuff like that, so probably well over 100 million keystrokes representing the collected wisdom, spats, love, laughter, warmth, tears, and general loveliness of JMDL subscribers. Well done. Keep it up. Cheers! --Chris
