On 10/06/2021 11:15, Tim via users wrote:
Though he's right that replies should give an unmistakeable clue
about
what's being replied to. It makes it far easier to understand if you
don't have to find a prior message to understand it. And some people
delete old messages, especially when they're inundated with hundreds
each day.
I get a few hundred message a day. I use filters to folders which makes my life easier
when people
don't do what "I" think they should. :-) :-)
I keep 15 days of list emails locally. Just for those times where there are long
threads. Even now
the User's folder only has 202 emails in it. And it isn't as if I lack disk
space, but still.
On Evolution, I have it only showing the last 5 day's worth. If
it
were easily customisable, I might narrow it down to 3 day's worth.
T-Bird has a nice "Retention Policy" on a per folder basis.
Back when I did usenet using Forte Agent, I recall doing something
similar, with it auto-deleting cached messages that were a couple of
weeks old. At least with usenet, you could very easily re-fetch an
older uncached message (you still saw the headers, you just didn't have
any cached body content for them).
If someone posts a reply to messages which hss been deleted and I can't divine what
is being said I do one of 2 things. I either ignore it (especially if I'm weak on the
subject).
Or, I go to the archives. My browser has a bookmark to them so it isn't too much
trouble.
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Remind me to ignore comments which aren't germane to the thread.