November 13, 2001 Subject: Download link for The Murray Game
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The link was pointing to a geocities.com site. Oh those were the days…
Nice try, but I’m not going to get scammed into sharing my Neopets password reset link with you!
July 30, 2004.
An email from my dad.
I don’t delete emails unless they’re spam.
Email from my father goes to spam.
The duality of man.
First week of May, 1990. Welcome email to my first job on a university campus. I exported to an mbox file and can still access with Thunderbird. I have every email since. It’s… a lot.
I’ve got one from Thu, 10 Mar 1994, but it’s boring and this one stands out more:
On Sat, 17 Feb 1996, Dolphin Satan wrote:
I can’t fuckin see your page man!You need to get rid of that white font.
Fuck you. Get some fucking glasses.
1996 if you count print copies in a binder.
LOL
When you realise this is a recovery question to your email account 👀
Sept 7, 1993. It’s a college-oriented chain email that ends with “pass the beer” that a friend who’d just gone to college sent to about 30 people, which caused ancillary reply-all conversations for the next year or so.
I don’t want to look, I’ve had that account since the early 2000s.
The earliest message I have accessible in Thunderbird is from the 25th of May, 2001. It’s part of a conversation with old work colleagues who I had remained drinking buddies with when I started a new job nearby. (There are actually two messages with earlier dates, but one is an imported message from March of 2001 that wasn’t actually sent or originally received by me, and another that’s an old Usenet post, probably also imported, that doesn’t have a datestamp at all, registering as 1/1/1970.)
If I go digging around in my university backup, I have messages from 1998 in there. I would have earlier e-mails, but quota was limited on the University systems, so I expect I deleted everything at the start of every year.
September 2026, I never saw the appeal to keep everything. I have 10 emails right now. When I receive one, I act on it or store the useful part, then it goes to the trash.
I’ve got nearly 3000 unread emails.
3000? That is ammature numbers I have over 70,000 on my personal and nearly 7,000 at work
I usually try to be this organised, but it’s easy to fall behind and it takes a while to sift through what’s important and what isn’t. I usually archive important emails that I need for a long time.
What do you mean when you say “store the useful part”?
I just archive emails once I’m done with them, and if I need “the useful part” I’ll find the email again. I guess that’s the appeal of keeping everything.
On my IRL account, not very. It has a data limit, and some people just have to attach a ton of random videos. On some weird forgotten account somewhere, who knows?
Original welcome email on my Gmail October 2005.
Subject was “Gmail is different. Here’s what you need to know.”
August 30th 2004. It’s the welcome email from when I signed up for the Gmail beta(!) way back when. Unfortunately my first e-mail address and inbox hasn’t made it. It was a proprietary webmail from my ISP, so I couldn’t transfer it to Gmail.
Probably some mail from 95. I never delete anything.
