On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 11:17:42PM +0100, Phillip Baker wrote: > Some would say, the solution would be to delete messages instead of hoarding > all your mailing list email which is more than likely archived automatically > by the list manager anyway (one would hope - I haven't actually checked, but > I'm sure theres got to be an archive of the debian lists somewhere). > > There's no way I'd consider keeping more than about 30 messages on hand at > any one time for any mailing list - I simply dont see the point in clogging > my machine up ;) I'm not trying to change your mind on anything, but I think there's something you're overlooking - vacations. I was out of town last week, and my "systems" folder is the list where my SysAdmin team gets email. It receives anywhere from 500 to over 1000 email messages a day. In one week that's quite a lot of email. maildir helps quite a bit with large mail loads like this. -- "A crash is when your competitor's program dies. When your program dies, it is an 'idiosyncrasy'. Frequently, crashes are followed with a message like 'ID 02'. 'ID' is an abbreviation for idiosyncrasy and the number that follows indicates how many more months of testing the product should have had." -Guy Kawasaki
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