[opensuse] Keeping e-mails
Anton Aylward wrote
I don't see why I have to keep all the messages around - and on my workstation
That brings up a question that has bugged me for years. I've known people that have every e-mail they ever received. Why do that? I read all my mail. I delete anything that is of only marginal interest as soon as it's read. Things of interest I leave but they are deleted automatically in ninety days if I don't move them. If I don't need it within ninety days I most likely never will. I will have forgotten all about it by then. Anything of importance I save somewhere outside my e-mail program. If your one of those that do, do you also keep all the junk mail that comes through snail mail? -- “Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.” -Albert Einstein _ _... ..._ _ _._ ._ ..... ._.. ... .._ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday, 2013-05-09 at 07:49 -0500, Billie Walsh wrote:
Anton Aylward wrote
I don't see why I have to keep all the messages around - and on my workstation
That brings up a question that has bugged me for years. I've known people that have every e-mail they ever received.
Why do that?
Simply because it is possible to do, it doesn't need a big investment to keep old email folders. Doing the same with paper may need rooms.
If your one of those that do, do you also keep all the junk mail that comes through snail mail?
That's not a fair comparison: you can not compare keeping junk mail/email to keeping normal mail/email. I can give you a reason for keeping junk email, though: you need a large enough junk folder to train the bayessian filters. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 12.1 x86_64 "Asparagus" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlGL3k4ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UWNgCfX78Xn4UPrvLlb2j2rpufTRRt ukoAn2Y3sq5l1gQmRL7jJicsp18ceXa1 =de2D -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Anton Aylward wrote
I don't see why I have to keep all the messages around - and on my workstation
That brings up a question that has bugged me for years. I've known people that have every e-mail they ever received.
Why do that?
I keep a lot of the emails I've received. I do delete the fluff emails and junk emails I get, but things like the openSUSE emails, I've got every email from every openSUSE ML group since I first subscribed to each. Why? Because it's dead easy to search my local archive (and considerably quicker). The results are also so much easier to parse and read via my mail client (GMail in this case) than via the wonky web archives of the same. Filtering makes it manageable. Outside of the openSUSE ML archive ( many thousands of emails), I also archive most personal email as a long term record. Many times I've had to go look up something in my email from years ago. My email archive dates back to 1995 or so (it gets very spotty for dates before 1998 since I was less diligent about storage and backups back then). For example, I've had to dig up info related to moves I've done (from country to country and continent to continent) for taxes, and immigration records - in some cases I've been required to provide accurate accounts of border crossings or immigration and job application information, most of which is in my emails in one form or another. My email archive also includes records of various software license keys I've purchased over the years - some for software I still use despite it being 15 or more years old. That mail archive is very useful, easy to parse, and quite important overall. The fact it's so easy to import and keep that archive rolling with openSUSE is rather nice :-) C. -- openSUSE 12.3 x86_64, KDE 4.10 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
C wrote:
I keep a lot of the emails I've received. I do delete the fluff emails and junk emails I get, but things like the openSUSE emails, I've got every email from every openSUSE ML group since I first subscribed to each. Why? Because it's dead easy to search my local archive (and considerably quicker). The results are also so much easier to parse and read via my mail client (GMail in this case) than via the wonky web archives of the same. Filtering makes it manageable.
My email doesn't include any mailing-list mail - that all goes to my news-server. There it is kept for 30 days.
I also archive most personal email as a long term record. Many times I've had to go look up something in my email from years ago. My email archive dates back to 1995 or so (it gets very spotty for dates before 1998 since I was less diligent about storage and backups back then). For example, I've had to dig up info related to moves I've done (from country to country and continent to continent) for taxes, and immigration records - in some cases I've been required to provide accurate accounts of border crossings or immigration and job application information, most of which is in my emails in one form or another.
My email archive also includes records of various software license keys I've purchased over the years - some for software I still use despite it being 15 or more years old.
Agree with all of the above. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (15.2°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - free DNS hosting, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Billie Walsh wrote:
Anton Aylward wrote
I don't see why I have to keep all the messages around - and on my workstation
That brings up a question that has bugged me for years. I've known people that have every e-mail they ever received.
Why do that?
Two separate cases: corporate and individual. For the former, there are regulations. For the latter, it's a matter of taste or practicality. I keep my mails except for subscriptions and internal alerts which I clean out regularly.
If your one of those that do, do you also keep all the junk mail that comes through snail mail?
I don't keep any spam, whether it came by email or snail-mail. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (16.4°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - free DNS hosting, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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Carlos E. R.
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