A question....

[poltr1]

Am I the only one around here who saves old email and correspondence with people?

Why do I do it? Because I like the ability to be able to refer back to it if necessary.

How long should email be kept around? Six months? A year? Forever?

Comments

[egoldberg.livejournal.com]

I keep data permanently. My e-mail archives go back 10 years.

It's often valuable to be able to refer back to what a customer or musician may have said years ago.

[dragon-pet.livejournal.com]

I keep mine awhile.. thats why I love g-mail, you never have to delete things.

[sdorn.livejournal.com]

Google Desktop is such an interesting creature... useful for historians centuries in the future and for the FBI today.

Having said that, I'll admit to using Google Desktop and keeping a LOT of e-mail. Not everything.

[yourmommma.livejournal.com]

I have my email saved back for as long as I've been using email. Everytime I change computers, we back up all of my email onto an email file and then I go forward. I'm glad I have it just to refer to from time to time...and you never know when you're going to want to write to someone from the deep dark past.