Do you delete your e-mail/PMs/old files?

[dtbog]

I don't know about you all but in the era of 1GB e-mail accounts and huge hard drives, I'm pretty hard-pressed to delete much of anything.

My school e-mail account is at 80% capacity because I still have e-mails from professors from freshman year. I have e-mails from high school still in my Yahoo account. I have never deleted a PM on 2+2.

It can't really be called 'wasteful', because you're not actually wasting anything. If I needed the space, I'd start deleting stuff. Every so often, though, I'll go back and look up some old information and be very glad that I kept it.

Of course, I know some people have 0 messages in their inbox at all times.

Discuss.

[mason55]

Not only do I not delete anything, but I use my gmail account as a todo list and storage for important info I don't want to lose. I have a bunch of folders and actions set up for different tags on my subjects. It's awesome-o.

[jakethebake]

I'm with you. I hardly ever delete anything unless I run out of space. Then I sort by biggest files and delete the larger ones that I don't think I'll need.

[TheTROLL]

Same - I've had email for over 15 years and still have every nonspam one I've ever received.

[Shajen]

I delete everything except the truly important stuff.

I hate clutter.


I also get a ton of notifications and CC: emails that I actually don't need. Damned IT industry. I get like 300 emails a day. It blows moose penis.

[Patrick del Poker Grande]

I still have the PMs from the old-school BBSs before I even had real internet access.

[dtbog]

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I also get a ton of notifications and CC: emails that I actually don't need.

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I always hated when people didn't understand the difference between "Reply" and "Reply All".

When I worked on web development at one of those booming dot-coms, someone would send out an e-mail to all of the developers saying "Update is live. please check your files."

Someone would then reply to the site updates guy with "Thank you for doing this in a timely manner. How did last weekend go?"

Lo and behold, thus begins an entire discussion thread that you couldn't care less about.

(I even kept those e-mails!)

[dtbog]

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I still have the PMs from the old-school BBSs before I even had real internet access.

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Damn, man. You ARE old school.

I still like your avatar, by the way.

[Patrick del Poker Grande]

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I still have the PMs from the old-school BBSs before I even had real internet access.

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Okay, I confess... I don't have this [censored]. How many of you losers do, though?

[Shajen]

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I still have the PMs from the old-school BBSs before I even had real internet access.

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Nerd.

[Patrick del Poker Grande]

I'm kind of interested to see how many people actually know what I was talking about.

[Shajen]

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I'm kind of interested to see how many people actually know what I was talking about.

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*raises hand*


http://www.georgecoghill.com/gc02/images/illustration/_personal/nerd.png

[ddubois]

I used to operate a BBS (a 'pirate' one, for downloading game software). It was 1200 baud, then one of my users donated a 2400 baud modem. I couldn't beleive it.

[Bradyams]

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I delete everything except the truly important stuff.

I hate clutter.

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[MagicMan08]

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I used to operate a BBS (a 'pirate' one, for downloading game software). It was 1200 baud, then one of my users donated a 2400 baud modem. I couldn't beleive it.

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Ah yes....back in the day...when chatrooms weren't spam havens for porn sites, esp aol. Which my parents have, not me.

[Patrick del Poker Grande]

A/S/L?

[Porcupine]

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I delete everything except the truly important stuff.

I hate clutter.



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[dtbog]

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Ah yes....back in the day...when chatrooms weren't spam havens for porn sites, esp aol.

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AOL IS THE DEVIL

[TimM]

On my machine now I have two e-mails from 1997, and about 100 from 1998, and of course everything after that. I might have older stuff in backup files somewhere.

My first real dial-up internet account was in 1993, and I was running Windows 3.1. A little before that I had Compuserve and Delphi services.

My first modem I got in 1986, 1200 baud for my Commodore 64. I dialed into various BBSs, computers at my college, and an online service called Quantum Link, or Q-Link for short. A few years later they changed their name to America Online.