Post #2685572
2026-04-27 10:33 UTC
Around this time every year I move last year's emails from the general Archive mailbox into a separate one for that year. Why? Because in the 1990s Eudora didn't cope well when mailboxes got too big, so I feel the need to please the email client gods by continuing to do this, whatever app I'm using.
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@frijole@mastodon.social 2026-04-27 13:01
@philgyford@mastodon.social in the 90s! I had to run around campus doing emergency hair on fire mailbox rescues for people who hit 2gb in 2010!
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@gwire@mastodon.social 2026-04-27 13:21
@philgyford@mastodon.social I've got lots of little rituals originating as workarounds for things I no longer use, that I consciously choose to keep. Sometimes they inadvertently save me from new bugs. I sometimes break very large files into 650MB chunks if I need to transfer them somewhere.