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I started deleting my emails and I feel really better that this big stack of crap is erased forever. The whole concept of archiving mail is disgusting. Everybody is concerned by climate change, but seriously, storing all these data is crazy and dirty, a datacenter is everything but clean.

No backups to deal with and no procrastination-until-the-end-of-your-life. Save the planet and get away from your past.



I have two decades of email saved; it's a few gigabytes and could fit on a single USB stick or DVDW.

I happen to like my past and want to keep it, even if I don't habitually refer to it.




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