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My latest hobby is deleting email. I used to keep it all, but I get way too much and I don't care about a lot of it. Now I've started to delete it. My new rule is if a machine wrote it, I am not interested in keeping it very long. It might be news, it might be a special offer, it could be a cvs commit, an error message on my server, but basically if I didn't look at it and act on it in a certain period of time then a) it's now old and probably useless and b) I can probably get the same information still somewhere else.
It's so liberating to see my inbox full of just personal emails that people typed to me. I think subscribing my own personal email to mailing lists is a time stealer, let alone Amazon, Barnes&Noble, Borders etc etc all spamming me regularly. So... they have all been nuked, even from my backups!
I've even discovered that Apple's Mail.app is not quite so slow as
I thought - it was doing quite a good job in face of a massive
overload of impersonal machine generated email.
posted at: 20:12 | path: /misc | permanent link to this entry