On 2013-04-09, James Griffin <j...@kontrol.kode5.net> wrote:

> Purely just out of curiosity, why would you need to keep such a high
> number of email? Is this something quite common (at risk of sounding
> a bit stupid)? I just can't imagine ever keeping that much email in
> my account.

It's the "google way".  Google's philosophy is roughly this: since
disk space is free and unlimited, and Google's search/tagging is so
utterly cool, there's no cost to keeping all mail forever. OTOH, there
_is_ a cost in deleting an e-mail that you later find out you need.

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