I'm one of those freaks that listen to the e-mail groups bitching about the tremendous storage problems they have.

I'm not going to tell you how many I have in some of my mailboxes. The scary thing is, about 3 times a year, this hoarding save my (or someone else's) ass.

It's terrible, but the main function I use for documenting stuff.

Feel free to give her my email address (in profile). I'll be glad to chat with her about it.

Will do! Thanks!

I'd think it'd be a good idea to at least keep your sent and received emails. You could archive them once a month or something.

Hoo-boy, we keep everything around here. "Deep and wide" is our mantra. You never know when shit's going to fly about something noone's thought about in months, and it's helpful to be able to pull up the ass-cover on a moment's notice.

"a willowy Inuit is hard to find".

Heh. Buffy shout-out, or mere amusing coincidence?

(actually, this reminded me I hadn't gone through the ones I keep logs in since...well, a long time. And that stuff I only need about the last month's data. So I just deleted 2500 messages.)

Does anyone else get to the end of the thread, put the cursor in the post box, and hit paste just to see if, at some point, they had something to say?

Just me? Okay then.

we keep everything around here

We're not supposed to. Internal CYA is nice, but external liability is more important. I think the decision is to err on the side of "If you haven't made it official, yank it."

In theory. It's apparent I'm the only one that listens to Email or Retention.

ION, Chicago has new baby penguins! [link]

There's a photo of a penguin chick you can click on....

ita, i am convinced that YOU HATE ME.

Does anyone else get to the end of the thread, put the cursor in the post box, and hit paste just to see if, at some point, they had something to say?

No, but I often hit command+v only to discover that I've lost whatever it was I wanted to quote to a variety of work-related command+c-ing.