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In article <1992Dec31.201049.3425@mail.cornell.edu> phydeaux@guru.med.cornell.edu (Dave Weingart) writes:
>In article <1992Dec31.190901.25444@osf.org>, dbrooks@osf.org (David Brooks) writes:
>
>|> Of course not.  But I'm sure they will write more often than they do now.
>|> Currently people either use the phone or ignore their elders, resulting in
>|> a society much worse documented than, say, the Victorians, who often wrote
>|> to each other twice a day.  At least we now have the chance of archiving
>|> family correspondence.
>
>If in fact people archive anything.  I am a great fan of letter-writing, and when
>I get them, I usually toss them after I've read them.  Saving letters is a more
>a "cultural" thing (per person) and I suspect that most people won't.
>
>How many of you save your email?
>
Oh! Me! ME! I do! (Well, most of it...the simple stuff I chuck, but I
have mail from friends saved in files.)

If it's business related, I save it until the job is finished, then I
clean out the mbox file. This could be months. I have been known to
have over 500 mail messages in the mbox file.

If I can answer the question quickly, I delete the mail after wards.

But then, at home, it's a different story...NOT! My husband cleans up
and throws away all the important stuff...Christmas letters from 3
years agao that I've been meaning to answer any day now...

I will admit that now that I'm in more than daily contact with some
people, I don't save all the messages. Maybe there is hope for me,
after all.

deb
(djg@genrad.com)