You are quite the feather merchant when it comes to email, I'm
afraid :-). This is my personal Mail directory:
B/home/kent/Mail[241]du -s .
465593 .
B/home/kent/Mail[242]
The units are kilobytes -- I have half a gig of archived email. The
wwpotter file is small potatoes, relatively speaking, but it is
still 3 megabytes of mail. (I receive many email messages a day.)
In fact, I was thinking of making a public archive of the wwpotter
list -- something that could be searched online, unlike the current
monolithic-file-download-archive -- but the excess quoting behavior
of some of the wwpotter list members makes for a relatively low
density of useful information.
>Sometimes we cannot get in on the messages at the right time and miss out on a
>lot of good info for all the trimming... I personally like it when the
>backgrounds are still attached to all the replies...
You will learn, my son...
>Bandwidth? shandwith... This is all text based... You save maybe 150 bits.
>Ain't worth it... Now, if it were graphics based, that would suck up some
>power....
It's actually not machine bandwidth that bothers me, it's my *human*
bandwidth. Scanning through a couple of hundred lines of quoted
material that I have already seen carried repetitively through the
previous 5 messages, to find the two line pearl of wisdom that you
have added, is not the best use of any of our time.
In other words, it's not the absolute size that matters, it is the
efficiency.
>The reason the stuff is slow is cause it has to go through those 180 gigabits
>of AOL and Win 95 software to get to you...
Actually, I read my mail on a unix system, and use a small,
text-based email program called "mutt". It has powerful features
for keeping mail organized, very good capabilities for searching,
and allows easy access to mail headers, for the occasional practical
joke...
kent
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