On 2016-02-08 11:14:09 (+0100), Vlad Ghitulescu <[email protected]>
wrote:
On 8 Feb 2016, at 10:49, Philip Paeps wrote:
My archives go back to the mid-nineties. Since mail (generally)
compresses well and (server) disk space kept getting cheaper, I
decided a very long time ago that it's cheaper to keep everything
than to regularly evaluate what's relevant.
How often do you use / read those mid-nineties email messages now?
Surprisingly often! Well, maybe not those from the nineties. But I do
often need to refer back to old email threads. Often enough that I find
it a lot easier to keep them around and easily accessible in my mailbox
than to try to decide what/when to archive to somewhere less convenient.
I still have the email messages from 2002, but live doesn't stop :-)
so I didn't take a glance of them since ages!
Oh I don't often read old email for fun. There's plenty of new email to
keep me occupied. Sometimes new email will ask me about something I
worked on ten years ago though. And my email archive has a much better
memory than I do.
Simple connectivity is one thing, but also finding what I need.
See my previous message: MailSteward or HoudahSpot make that realy
easy.
I hadn't heard of these until now. I'm not terribly enthusiastic about
spreading my email access across different systems though. Standardised
IMAP "just works". Even if it means dragging a lot of history around
and stretching client data structures and indices to their limits. :)
Philip
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Philip Paeps
Senior Reality Engineer
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