As I mentioned in the last post, I have a GMail account. I have come up with something to use it for – archiving all my old emails. And let me tell you, ’tis quite something. 1Gb of space isn’t really the main purpose, though – the whole thing seems to be designed around never needing to delete another email. Mails don’t go in folders, they get “labels” and then I can look at only the mail with the “Horde” label, or only the “Ceels” label. So far, the same as folders… but emails can have more than one label – so when Ceels sends an email to the horde, it shows up in both views. Also, it doesn’t show you one email per webpage, but instead you get the whole “conversation” on one page. And you can Google-search your emails.

Some observations from archiving my emails:

1. You can plot when various movies came out by everybody’s subject lines… “nobody likes a kiss ass”; “I steal from the rich and give to the needy”; “Do I detect a hint of minty freshness?” around Christmas ‘01 (and many many more Shrek references)
2. 1Gb of emails is really an extraordinary amount
3. I do have a very large number of emails.
4. Sorting a very large number of emails takes lots of time and hence is an ideal activity to take up 2 days before my exam.

Anyway, back to my oodles of old emails…

Update: 1. is in fact mostly Lu and Ceels, and almost all Shrek. Lu and Ceels like Shrek. Lots.

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