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I delete all email after 90 days, unless I explicitly moved it to an archive folder. I've never event thought about saving IMs, texts, Twitter, etc. Civilizati
by codva 13y ago
I delete all email after 90 days, unless I explicitly moved it to an archive folder.
I've never event thought about saving IMs, texts, Twitter, etc. Civilization has survived a very long time without a written record of every conversation ever. It will continue to do so.
- BlackDeath3 13y agoCivilization survived a long time without penicillin.
- tekacs 13y agoI know that this isn't Reddit, but I can't resist: nick relevant! (sorry, had to get that out of my system - am aware (AFAIK) that the black death was never treated with penicillin, given the dates involved)
- BlackDeath3 13y agoBetter than the racist/overtly-sarcastically ominous comments I usually get concerning my name.
- stuff4ben 13y agothat's a good policy I'm going to start following at work. I have every email I've sent or received for the past 4 years I've worked at this particular company. Prior to that I saved my emails from other jobs in the same way. But I rarely go back into those archives for anything.
- prawn 13y agoThere would be countless historians now who wish they had access to more past writing than they do! And that includes the minutiae that we think completely uninteresting today.