How much room do you leave availble in your inbox?

[Que]

I have found that I usually clear mine to about 25 available. I am a packrat, so it hurts to delete. One would think 750 would be plenty.

If I take the time to clear more than 25, I still fill it up in a couple of days, and the larger number to look through and decision becomes overwhelming. I am quite sure that hundreds of PMs now have little to no meaning to me, but they somehow survived a purge and are beyond the first page or two, and therefore untouchable.

I would pay money for an unlimited inbox. Not a lot of money, mind, but at least folding as opposed to jingling money.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

All of it.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

No one ever writes, so I have scads of room.


I may still have my Very First PM Ever.


Well, maybe not, but still.

 

[Que]

@4_est that seems like it would make sense and be freeing. I just am not built that way. If I had my way, every word I spoke or wrote and every words spoken or written to me would all be indexed and tagged to be searchable. It is frustrating to have a blurry photographic memory. I remember roughly everything, but only that a particular thing was over there when I read it, or that I was talking to so and so when I heard it. Never can I seem to recall it on command.

No one ever writes, so I have scads of room.


I may still have my Very First PM Ever.


Well, maybe not, but still.

Given that 1 picture = 1,000 words, perhaps they are intimidated by your verbosity?

 

[Littlefinger]

I thought there was a threshold. I remember reaching it with an old account, like to the point it no longer mattered to clean the thing out.

I don't like keeping things. I mean, I do, just not here. Grab whatever and save it somewhere else. I like my PM notation to say "0 / 0"

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Given that 1 picture = 1,000 words, perhaps they are intimidated by your verbosity?

I think it's more like Joe the Hotelier in Last Man Standing when he says, "they think I'm crazy."


Then again, I may be wrong.


Either way, I tend to be one poor correspondent.

 

[Que]

I thought there was a threshold. I remember reaching it with an old account, like to the point it no longer mattered to clean the thing out.

I don't like keeping things. I mean, I do, just not here. Grab whatever and save it somewhere else. I like my PM notation to say "0 / 0"

I have tried keeping things elsewhere but that makes were to file even worse. Silly because I rarely go back and look at anything. Reminds me of those organizing show where they are working with someone to get rid of junk. It isn't the thing you want, it is the memory attached to it that you are afraid of losing.

I do feel that it would be good for my personal development to develop some sort of discipline about this. If I truly want to keep a note, have a reason to keep it and a place to do so.

I despise cleaning it out and usually don't until I'm no longer able to get PMs and am reminded angrily by someone to empty it.

Then when I do empty, I delete everything. I used to have a bunch saved in folders but deleting those was both cathartic and space enabling!

I think is would be cathartic if I could.

Sometimes I get in a back and forth exchange with someone. It is so annoying to watch that green bar disappear and have to stop and delete. It only takes 13 back and forth exchanges with only one correspondent to burn through 25 slots.

I really hate that it keeps a copy of the send. It seems like too much work to go down and uncheck the box on each out-bound, when I can delete a dozen in one swoop later, but the first idea is actually better.

I will sometimes have two or three longer conversational threads going and I am quite sure some of those threads end because they are current and filling up my inbox. I forget that it was "my turn."

 

[fma20fma]

hi

I keep 10 recd and 10 sent.eraze the rest to keep it light always.

 

[Bidin~Time]

giving me 750 pm slots was like giving a hermit the taj mahal. It can be pretty to look at, but it will never be full.

 

[Brollyanna]

What about downloading your messages before you delete them?

I would have thought keeping a little (or huge) spreadsheet of PMs would be right up your street.

 

[Que]

I think it's more like Joe the Hotelier in Last Man Standing when he says, "they think I'm crazy."


Then again, I may be wrong.


Either way, I tend to be one poor correspondent.

I don't know how others experience you but your posts are fairly unambiguous, and often light-hearted. I can think of only a time or two we talked briefly by PM and in each case it was more a matter of something I did not want to express in the clear, or thought you might not.

I keep 10 recd and 10 sent.eraze the rest to keep it light always.

Hi.

That sounds like a sensible plan.

giving me 750 pm slots was like giving a hermit the taj mahal. It can be pretty to look at, but it will never be full.

Well, I would consider sending you a PM to make your box feel less lonely but whatever could we talk about?

 

[Bidin~Time]

Well, I would consider sending you a PM to make your box feel less lonely but whatever could we talk about?

I think that is a question most people have where I'm concerned.

 

[Que]

What about downloading your messages before you delete them?

I would have thought keeping a little (or huge) spreadsheet of PMs would be right up your street.

You would think. I am great at designing systems and processes. Not so good at following them and it makes no difference if I was the one that designed it or someone else, and how much of a good idea I think it is.

I do best when I have some sort of administrative assistant to file things for me.

Even more oddly, I like filing and organizing for others, but for myself I make so many micro-graduations that I tend to make it overwhelming and I get "stuck." Some combination of ADHD, OCD, and Aspey at work I suspect.

I think that is a question most people have where I'm concerned.

Hmm. I get impressions about people. About how they strike me, and sometimes that is congruent with (at least my impression) of how they are perceived by others. Sometimes not.

Sometimes I think (correctly or not) I see someone in a slightly different light than others might. In your case I think that most people probably see you as I do, but that is hard to characterize.

Something about your persona is although friendly but I wouldn't say flirty for example. Not that you are unwelcoming, but you don't leave little openings, I (don't think) you use a lot of double entendre for example.

Somehow, I always picture that you would be in the loop with, I dunno, like how kids are doing in school with other posters, or 4-H projects or some such.

I think since you come across as fairly without guile, most anything people say to you, is probably in the clear anyway, isn't it? I cannot picture you heavily involved in Board intrigue, for example.

 

[butters]

i'm always having to make room. H and i pm everyday, sometimes as often as 10 times, and we've learned to keep just one 'string' per day - deleting all the previous of the same string and unchecking the 'keep a sent copy' each time. and i'm still always running out of room. i've only pms from him, byron (+a couple from noor), laurel, tods, and 12 in there, having had to delete all others but with each pm representing many pms space is still an issue. the reason i keep all of H's is pretty obvious - they're like a history of our relationship plus there's some great (to me) back and forth poetry going on between us. what i really need to do now is take the time to c&p all the strings onto text files and save.

 

[oggbashan]

I have several email accounts:

1 - family only
2 - community matters and eBay etc
3 - jeanne_d_artois as an author
4 - oggbashan as an author and for Yahoo Adult Groups
5 - obsolete business now used for Fag-Ash Lil

Emails in Inbox?

1. About 100, with 1,000 in folders
2. About 7,500 with 10,000 in folders
3. 25 total in all parts
4. Inbox about 750. 2,500 in folders.
5. 10 in total in all parts

Email account 2 is the busiest with about 100 new emails a day, excluding Spam.
Email account 4 is the next busiest with about 50 new emails a day.

Accounts 3 and 5 get about 5 emails a month in total.

I've got to spend some time clearing out account 2. Thanks for the reminder.

 

[Bidin~Time]

Hmm. I get impressions about people. About how they strike me, and sometimes that is congruent with (at least my impression) of how they are perceived by others. Sometimes not.

Sometimes I think (correctly or not) I see someone in a slightly different light than others might. In your case I think that most people probably see you as I do, but that is hard to characterize.

Something about your persona is although friendly but I wouldn't say flirty for example. Not that you are unwelcoming, but you don't leave little openings, I (don't think) you use a lot of double entendre for example.

Somehow, I always picture that you would be in the loop with, I dunno, like how kids are doing in school with other posters, or 4-H projects or some such.

I think since you come across as fairly without guile, most anything people say to you, is probably in the clear anyway, isn't it? I cannot picture you heavily involved in Board intrigue, for example.

Most of my friends and co workers would probably agree with most of this.

 

[Que]

i'm always having to make room. H and i pm everyday, sometimes as often as 10 times, and we've learned to keep just one 'string' per day - deleting all the previous of the same string and unchecking the 'keep a sent copy' each time. and i'm still always running out of room. i've only pms from him, byron (+a couple from noor), laurel, tods, and 12 in there, having had to delete all others but with each pm representing many pms space is still an issue. the reason i keep all of H's is pretty obvious - they're like a history of our relationship plus there's some great (to me) back and forth poetry going on between us. what i really need to do now is take the time to c&p all the strings onto text files and save.

I totally get this. I think that is why I am a packrat. You never know what is going to grow out of a PM, and I am nostalgic about beginnings. One can never know something is a beginning until it has flourished into something can one?

I have several email accounts:

1 - family only
2 - community matters and eBay etc
3 - jeanne_d_artois as an author
4 - oggbashan as an author and for Yahoo Adult Groups
5 - obsolete business now used for Fag-Ash Lil

Emails in Inbox?

1. About 100, with 1,000 in folders
2. About 7,500 with 10,000 in folders
3. 25 total in all parts
4. Inbox about 750. 2,500 in folders.
5. 10 in total in all parts

Email account 2 is the busiest with about 100 new emails a day, excluding Spam.
Email account 4 is the next busiest with about 50 new emails a day.

Accounts 3 and 5 get about 5 emails a month in total.

I've got to spend some time clearing out account 2. Thanks for the reminder.

Oh Lord. Do not remind me.

I meant just Lit. Elsewhere is a disaster. I have Email accounts I can no longer get into that I wish I could not, and others that I can, but can barely wade through for the chaff.

I have one that was a nom de plume but somehow it has survived and I mostly use it everyday. I have two that have my actual name n it and I like neither one, but for some people and organizations you really have to do that, so I do, and stuff gets overlooked and lost that way.

 

[jezzilee]

I don't have a set limit that I keep open. I am constantly making room by deleting my sent messages. It is harder to delete the receivables because that is something that someone took the time to send to me...it seems rude to throw it away! Besides I have a tiny inbox. 250 PM's....I think I need to post more.

 

[Disgustipated]

Sending PM's to yourself using your alts does not count. Just ask A_J and Wat.

 

[Riles]

I used to have a bunch saved in folders but deleting those was both cathartic and space enabling!

This.

As in all endings of relationships, I need the systematic cutting of ties so I can move on. Emails, pm's, clothing, gifts, photos, it all has to go at various points as I do the autopsy.


My box is near full, but with nothing I couldn't wipe clean with the click of a button...I just haven't wanted to spend the time maintaining it. Upon login it says I have 6 unread...I'll get to them this week maybe.

 

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[FGB]

Not that it has been that much of a problem here with the PM's but I simply download them to my computer, both the sent and the received ones.

Outlook express at work I archive what I can after deleting what I think I can do without.

Lately some asshole decided to knock the email storage from five to one gigabyte.

I can keep about six months worth in my in-box and sent to. Yeah, lots of my Emails go from two to five megabytes.

 

[Que]

Sending PM's to yourself using your alts does not count. Just ask A_J and Wat.

Maybe that is my problem.

This.

As in all endings of relationships, I need the systematic cutting of ties so I can move on. Emails, pm's, clothing, gifts, photos, it all has to go at various points as I do the autopsy.


My box is near full, but with nothing I couldn't wipe clean with the click of a button...I just haven't wanted to spend the time maintaining it. Upon login it says I have 6 unread...I'll get to them this week maybe.

A week to get through 6? It is a good thing you are not an 18 year old bisexual nymphomaniac wanting to share your nude pictures posting in the personals section or you would never get to the bottom of your inbox.

Your latest AV reminds me of the only picture I had handy when I made my first dating profile. It was the same shot but just looking up enough to show my eyes.

I have a handful saved in folders, but once I start getting the 90%+ warnings, I wipe out sent and inbox.

Not that it has been that much of a problem here with the PM's but I simply download them to my computer, both the sent and the received ones.

Outlook express at work I archive what I can after deleting what I think I can do without.

Lately some asshole decided to knock the email storage from five to one gigabyte.

I can keep about six months worth in my in-box and sent to. Yeah, lots of my Emails go from two to five megabytes.

Sounds like the direction that the administration has been headed with regards to email retention.

 

[Que]

Mine fills about every three days. I can't stand it and I can't stand that people can't seem to just move to a better medium.

You know, I have the same thought, often. For some reason though, I am hesitant to suggest IM which is a better format for what is a real-time conversation anyway. I am always relived when they suggest it, but i tend not to offer since it seems like a venue bounce and escalation.

Probably because when I do actually suggest it, that is sometimes the case. Guilty conscience, no doubt.

I always snicker at the Personals ads that are soliciting IMs and then some Yay-hoo feels the need to type "Pm SENT!" in the thread. Just send her the damn IM, ya nimrod!

 

[Riles]

A week to get through 6? It is a good thing you are not an 18 year old bisexual nymphomaniac wanting to share your nude pictures posting in the personals section or you would never get to the bottom of your inbox.

Your latest AV reminds me of the only picture I had handy when I made my first dating profile. It was the same shot but just looking up enough to show my eyes.

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It's called apathy, it's common place in regards to the pm's I get.

Pen rider in an auction today, so the gear came back out of the trunk, and I was bored with the other AV this morning, so...

This one won't last, I don't like it.