Thanks everyone for all the good advice!
After religiously backing up my entire mail folder,
I compacted my mail database. The entire process
took about 15 minutes, much less than I had feared,
and trimmed the database size from 1.9 GB to 481 MB.
Yay! This gives me more breathing room before I'm
forced to export older messages to a separate db.
-- marco
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It's not the data universe only, it's human conversation.
They want to turn it into a one-way flow that they have entirely
monetized. I look at the collective human mind as a kind of
ecosystem. They want to clear cut it. They want to go into the
rainforest of human thought and mow the thing down.
