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. -- Remind me to ignore comments which aren't germane to the thread. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
