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At 06:56 PM 7/11/97 -0400, you wrote: >'Lo, all... > >Yesterday (10 July), a (recent) listmember posted a rather-lengthy >plea for restraint in message traffic (a plea for listmembers to >"hew to the line" of "business only" in their submissions. > >The member further stated that his hard disk was becoming VERY >heavily-occupied with with list traffic - and that his ISP-account >space was, too. [Now, this isn't the first time the same plea's >been made by listmembers. it's a periodically-recurring one - with >much the same argument.] > >Against this background, may I make a cogent suggestion? >There's an easy (and novel) solution to this matter. And it comes in >a form quite familiar to all of us - the "floppy" disk. (It's portable >and comes in at several forms - 3-1/2" and 5-1/4" -- and, for some of >you REALLY old-timers, 8". Data-densities range from 360k to ~1.8M per >disk -- with a new drive offering ~2.8M.) > >Technique to use? Simply file-off, a: discrete messages to suitable >disk-directories (of your own design), or b: Digest-subscribers can >simply save to floppy with file-names reflecting the "issue"-date. >If such a scheme's used, any (almost any) tracking-method you use >now would remain useable. [For suitably-capable users, you might >create databases - on floppy, of course - to maintain "threads", >while asuring ready access. > >The REAL objective is, of course, to remove archived-mssages (not >current) from your hard disc (or ISP-account), freeing it for more- >productive uses (executable software, for example.) > >NB: As long as I've been a computer user (almost 17 years), disc- >management's ALWAYS a problem (especially before desk-top PGC even >had hard-disks - then 10M, 20M, 40M, et al). It CERTAINLY didn't >begin with advent of 100m/200M/500M/1+GB disks. > >Hope this calms the fears of some listmembers.... > >Rgds, > >Don (CG for Jeanie, 62/7) > 72/25 lima,ohio some times i get as high as 50 message. take fast look and if not interest i just delet. after 25 year of pd i sean and hurd a lot. i just strat at the boten delet. if i could only spell. would have it made.so do like you said. I.Y.Q. don