Re: [clug-talk] Deleting one million gmails messages

2013-12-16 Thread Gustin Johnson
Connect to gmail with thunderbird over IMAP. Select all, hit the delete key. Go get a coffee (or maybe get lunch then do some shopping, this is going to take a while). Also understand that this is gmail, so nothing is actually deleted. All you are doing is removing your access to those messages

Re: [clug-talk] clug-talk Digest, Vol 109, Issue 6

2013-12-16 Thread Bill Rayment
I assume (bad) that your mail is still at Google. I suggest you use the web interface Select all mail from the left hand column Select "all" in the box next to the Mail button and look for the line that is just to the right of it that asks if you want to select the total number of emails in your "A

[clug-talk] Obituary for software patents

2013-12-16 Thread Greg King
Saw this in the Economist. Finally some common sense about patents. Greg Dec 12th 2013 [inline|iid=51158] See the full article http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2013/12/difference-engine-0 Visit http://www.economist.com for more global news, views, and analysis from The Economist. This