Save water: delete your emails!
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It's not April 1st today is it?
Apparently, the UK government is suggesting that my email archive is causing a drought ... https://www.theverge.com/science/758275/drought-delete-files-email-data-center-water-uk?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-gbCan't see it myself, I suspect that removing teenager Gentelemens Special Interest materrial woudl free up more space and thus save a lot more water!
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I probably don't have to explain this, but it's not your few emails, it's the billions of emails people (needlessly) store (yes, I'm fun at parties).
That being said, I think there are far better methods to save water than deleting emails, like, and I'm going out on a limb here, taking shorter showers and reusing towels.
Ok, now that I'm reading my own suggestion I think that's crazy talk and we should stick to the email thing ;) -
I probably don't have to explain this, but it's not your few emails, it's the billions of emails people (needlessly) store (yes, I'm fun at parties).
That being said, I think there are far better methods to save water than deleting emails, like, and I'm going out on a limb here, taking shorter showers and reusing towels.
Ok, now that I'm reading my own suggestion I think that's crazy talk and we should stick to the email thing ;)@Sander-Rossel You got this in my head "Sycophants is on the prowl so I don't need to do laundry
I'll dry myself with paper towels"It's from a song called Syrup by Aesop Rock, and it's basically about agoraphobia.
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Well, I tend to move the entire content of my mailbox to a local PST every couple of months until there's nothing left.
Besides, I thought the claim was that all free email services did when deleting an email was to mark it as deleted and they still held it internally?
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I don't know any politicians who drink water.
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I don't know any politicians who drink water.
@PIEBALDconsult There's a lot of water in KoolAid.
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It's not April 1st today is it?
Apparently, the UK government is suggesting that my email archive is causing a drought ... https://www.theverge.com/science/758275/drought-delete-files-email-data-center-water-uk?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-gbCan't see it myself, I suspect that removing teenager Gentelemens Special Interest materrial woudl free up more space and thus save a lot more water!
Be sure to backwash your phone lines periodically as well.
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How much water would be saved if I throw away all my archived paper mail? Does it make a difference if the mail is handwritten / written with an old style typewriter, or a printout of an electronic mail?
Regardless of how the letter was produced, I cannot understand how and why my paper mail archive cabinet consumes more water by holding a higher number of letters.
Or ... Now that I come to think of it: Why would my backup disk - offline, of course, as any proper backup should be - consume more water if the bits stored on it forms a number of email entries, compared to the bit pattern left by a proper erase program that fills disk pages being with a shredding pattern?
If the disk pages are not overwritten by a shredding pattern but simply linked over to the disk's freelist, how much would the disk drink then? As much as before mail cleanup, or reduced to the amount you could expect if they were filled with a shredding pattern?
