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On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 12:10 PM, james kilty wrote: > Interesting that my wife and colleagues are regularly asked to clear out > their mailboxes as the server is clogged up with their huge bank of > top-posted emails which grow in size each post. Well, there is that, of course, but I don't think storage is too much of an issue these days. At least it shouldn't be, for it's quite cheap. Clever storing would help too: if you reply to someone's message by putting the full message at the bottom, you don't really need to store that full message again in your system. But I know very little of modern mailboxes and I wonder how much this is used, especially for external correspondence. Mind you, I'm not saying we should all just top post and even in a work context we could do with removing the original email when it it unlikely to be needed more often (and I've definitely been guilty of lazily clicking send before even considering if I needed to quote the full conversation too), but I do think it has its use. Martijn. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html