[Cialug] Email

[Lee]

Yea I should have specified !=packrat in that question.

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From: cialug-admin@cialug.org [mailto:cialug-admin@cialug.org]On Behalf
Of David Champion
Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 2:43 PM
To: cialug@cialug.org
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Email


Next time someone accuses me of being an email packrat for having about
600mb of old email, I can just point you guys and say "I'm just an amateur."

-dc

Tom Pohl wrote:
> Wow and I thought *I* was the only one.
>
> I started with Eudora at ISU in the mid 90's and migrated all my mail to
> Outlook in the late 90's and eventually pushed it all onto a little
> exchange server in the corner of my basement.  Then, with a nifty
> utility, I moved it to Mail.app on my mac about a year and a half ago!
>
> Is 4gb a lot? ;) I would think that Google might even suggest a 12 step
> program.
>
> -Tom
>
> On Apr 1, 2005, at 2:11 PM, D. Joe Anderson wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 01:47:57PM -0600, Dave Weis wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Lee wrote:
>>>
>>>> So Google is bumping up the available email storage to 2GB
>>>> and will continue to increase it. Does anyone here use that
>>>> much space for "email" or have you seen a users mail box that
>>>> demands that much space?
>>>
>>>
>>> I've got about 900 megs from 2001-now. I had a couple more years before
>>> that but had a small problem with a raid controller and freed up some
>>> space. I also delete the attachments and store them in other
>>> directories.
>>
>>
>> At home:
>> $ du -s Mail
>> 842440  Mail
>>
>> At work:
>> $ du -s Mail
>> 1096348 Mail
>>
>> I keep a lot of the spam I get, though.  Like Dave, I've had
>> system . . . events . . . that have freed some space over the
>> years.
>>
>> --
>> D. Joe Anderson         http://www.etrumeus.com/~deejoe
>> "DRM [...] is to copyright law as a machine gun on
>> a motion detector is to real estate law"  -- Don Marti
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