You MIght Be Spending Too Much TIme At CodeProject When...
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the number of emails in the CodeProject folder (3112) exceeds the number in the Inbox (1148). :-D Yes, I really should clean them out, but it's so tedious! I never formed the habit of deleted messages after reading them back when the Internet was new. :sigh:
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
I guess I'm OK: Inbox - 21997 (1st message 05/22/96) Codeproject - 1102
Steve _________________ I C(++) therefore I am
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I guess I'm OK: Inbox - 21997 (1st message 05/22/96) Codeproject - 1102
Steve _________________ I C(++) therefore I am
Steve Mayfield wrote:
Inbox - 21997
Wow! I am impressed! :-D You must have messages in there that survived being sent over 9600 bps connections, slowly picking their ways over a network still in its infancy, languishing in holding folders for days while waiting for a route that led toward your mailbox. What stories they could tell!:cool: I'm curious - do you ever go back and read through them? Is it anything like the odd feeling of reviewing a journal you wrote long ago? My mailboxes only go back to 2006, as I've sufferred a few crashes over the years before Windows Update had most of its bugs exterminated and had to rebuild everything from scratch. It's like having a lobotomy... all that personal history gone forever. :sigh:
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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Steve Mayfield wrote:
Inbox - 21997
Wow! I am impressed! :-D You must have messages in there that survived being sent over 9600 bps connections, slowly picking their ways over a network still in its infancy, languishing in holding folders for days while waiting for a route that led toward your mailbox. What stories they could tell!:cool: I'm curious - do you ever go back and read through them? Is it anything like the odd feeling of reviewing a journal you wrote long ago? My mailboxes only go back to 2006, as I've sufferred a few crashes over the years before Windows Update had most of its bugs exterminated and had to rebuild everything from scratch. It's like having a lobotomy... all that personal history gone forever. :sigh:
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
Roger Wright wrote:
You must have messages in there that survived being sent over 9600 bps connections,
It's more probable that he doesn't use spam filter :)
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the number of emails in the CodeProject folder (3112) exceeds the number in the Inbox (1148). :-D Yes, I really should clean them out, but it's so tedious! I never formed the habit of deleted messages after reading them back when the Internet was new. :sigh:
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
I am at 3891 in the Inbox, and 3723 in my CP Forums folder (this is since 10/10/2006 when I last purged my inbox). Almost an even split.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham
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the number of emails in the CodeProject folder (3112) exceeds the number in the Inbox (1148). :-D Yes, I really should clean them out, but it's so tedious! I never formed the habit of deleted messages after reading them back when the Internet was new. :sigh:
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
With modern email software, I find the search & filter abilities good enough that I just dump a few months worth into an appropriately named folder. With storage as cheap as it is, there's almost no need to delete.
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Steve Mayfield wrote:
Inbox - 21997
Wow! I am impressed! :-D You must have messages in there that survived being sent over 9600 bps connections, slowly picking their ways over a network still in its infancy, languishing in holding folders for days while waiting for a route that led toward your mailbox. What stories they could tell!:cool: I'm curious - do you ever go back and read through them? Is it anything like the odd feeling of reviewing a journal you wrote long ago? My mailboxes only go back to 2006, as I've sufferred a few crashes over the years before Windows Update had most of its bugs exterminated and had to rebuild everything from scratch. It's like having a lobotomy... all that personal history gone forever. :sigh:
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
Roger Wright wrote:
My mailboxes only go back to 2006, as I've sufferred a few crashes over the years before Windows Update had most of its bugs exterminated and had to rebuild everything from scratch. It's like having a lobotomy... all that personal history gone forever.
This is not inevitable. Backup is your friend. :)
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
Think inside the box! ProActive Secure Systems
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the number of emails in the CodeProject folder (3112) exceeds the number in the Inbox (1148). :-D Yes, I really should clean them out, but it's so tedious! I never formed the habit of deleted messages after reading them back when the Internet was new. :sigh:
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
I am the same way for email. Deleting email just seems to be a general bad idea (I might need it!). And in fact, I frequently do go back and find older emails for various pieces of info. It's a shame that email systems aren't designed more the way we use them.
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the number of emails in the CodeProject folder (3112) exceeds the number in the Inbox (1148). :-D Yes, I really should clean them out, but it's so tedious! I never formed the habit of deleted messages after reading them back when the Internet was new. :sigh:
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
You might be spending too much time at Code Project when the number of threads in your inbox starting "You might be spending too much time at Code Project" is over 3000.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
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Steve Mayfield wrote:
Inbox - 21997
Wow! I am impressed! :-D You must have messages in there that survived being sent over 9600 bps connections, slowly picking their ways over a network still in its infancy, languishing in holding folders for days while waiting for a route that led toward your mailbox. What stories they could tell!:cool: I'm curious - do you ever go back and read through them? Is it anything like the odd feeling of reviewing a journal you wrote long ago? My mailboxes only go back to 2006, as I've sufferred a few crashes over the years before Windows Update had most of its bugs exterminated and had to rebuild everything from scratch. It's like having a lobotomy... all that personal history gone forever. :sigh:
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
1200 baud was the rate of my first modem card :sigh: The first message in the inbox is the "welcome to ATT ISP" message. Most of the messages are group messages from one of my other hobbies (yes, I do have a few) I do tend to save the personal ones and occasionally read some while searching for something else. The really important ones get their own folders - I have 42. About once a year, I prune down the inbox so as to keep the size below 4GB - the limit for each folder in Outlook Express.
Steve _________________ I C(++) therefore I am
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Roger Wright wrote:
You must have messages in there that survived being sent over 9600 bps connections,
It's more probable that he doesn't use spam filter :)
yes I do...as well as subject folders for a lot of the incoming mail that I want to keep...
Steve _________________ I C(++) therefore I am
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I am the same way for email. Deleting email just seems to be a general bad idea (I might need it!). And in fact, I frequently do go back and find older emails for various pieces of info. It's a shame that email systems aren't designed more the way we use them.
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Gmail frustrates the heck out of me. :) I meant more as in clients for email. If I had my dream email client/server it would have a lot of different ways to 'view' my emails with easier to use filters, would keep my email on the server and cache it locally (but do it a lot better than exchange server does), allow me to see even the deepest technical details of a raw email, etc. the list goes on
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the number of emails in the CodeProject folder (3112) exceeds the number in the Inbox (1148). :-D Yes, I really should clean them out, but it's so tedious! I never formed the habit of deleted messages after reading them back when the Internet was new. :sigh:
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
Roger Wright wrote:
I never formed the habit of deleted messages after reading them
You can delete emails. Ooooh. That's cool. :cool:
Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra]
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the number of emails in the CodeProject folder (3112) exceeds the number in the Inbox (1148). :-D Yes, I really should clean them out, but it's so tedious! I never formed the habit of deleted messages after reading them back when the Internet was new. :sigh:
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
Roger Wright wrote:
You MIght Be Spending Too Much TIme At CodeProject When...
you can't dance because you can't figure out how to type :jig: or :badger: into the real world.
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb) John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."
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I am at 3891 in the Inbox, and 3723 in my CP Forums folder (this is since 10/10/2006 when I last purged my inbox). Almost an even split.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham
Paul Conrad wrote:
Almost an even split.
You must have a life... :)
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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Roger Wright wrote:
My mailboxes only go back to 2006, as I've sufferred a few crashes over the years before Windows Update had most of its bugs exterminated and had to rebuild everything from scratch. It's like having a lobotomy... all that personal history gone forever.
This is not inevitable. Backup is your friend. :)
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
Think inside the box! ProActive Secure Systems
I'm on-line therefore I am. JimmyRopesJimmyRopes wrote:
Backup is your friend
When it works, when you have space available, when the new version of the software will actually admit to finding a backup and is willing to reload it... Nothing's perfect, alas...
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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Gmail frustrates the heck out of me. :) I meant more as in clients for email. If I had my dream email client/server it would have a lot of different ways to 'view' my emails with easier to use filters, would keep my email on the server and cache it locally (but do it a lot better than exchange server does), allow me to see even the deepest technical details of a raw email, etc. the list goes on
I sense a stirring in the Force... Could there be an article in your future?
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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Roger Wright wrote:
You MIght Be Spending Too Much TIme At CodeProject When...
you can't dance because you can't figure out how to type :jig: or :badger: into the real world.
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb) John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."
:badger: Great. You had to bring that up. And here I am, about to try to get a minimal night's sleep before work in the morning... :doh:
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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1200 baud was the rate of my first modem card :sigh: The first message in the inbox is the "welcome to ATT ISP" message. Most of the messages are group messages from one of my other hobbies (yes, I do have a few) I do tend to save the personal ones and occasionally read some while searching for something else. The really important ones get their own folders - I have 42. About once a year, I prune down the inbox so as to keep the size below 4GB - the limit for each folder in Outlook Express.
Steve _________________ I C(++) therefore I am
Steve Mayfield wrote:
the limit for each folder in Outlook Express
Switch to Thunderbird. Up until a couple of months ago, I was a diehard Outlook Express user. I had archived e-mail going back ten years. I've just switched to Vista, and found out "Windows Mail" is just Outlook Express with the serial numbers filed off. What finally did me in was a damn POP3 download bug in OE/WM. I get a couple newsletters. One of them occasionally has some slightly dodgy MIME encoding of the message. When Outlook Express would try to download one of these, it would lock up. You had to then kill the msimn.exe process in Task Manager. With Windows Mail it was even worse. The application would lock up, and when you killed the process, it broke the mail data base. I downloaded Thunderbird and installed it. It doesn't include a native means of importing your OE/WM e-mail, but there's an add-on that will do it. I exported my e-mail archive and contacts, imported them into Thunderbird, and voila! Thunderbird has a heck of a lot of buttons and knobs you can tweak if you like, along with a pile of add-ons.
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Roger Wright wrote:
You MIght Be Spending Too Much TIme At CodeProject When...
you can't dance because you can't figure out how to type :jig: or :badger: into the real world.
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb) John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."