UPDATE: WTF! Slow news day last week, turns out some guy filled up his own gmail account, and everyone and their auntie decided to shout about it. A slowwwww news day. Not gonna whine about it, but that guy didn’t even have a cunning solution!
Seven thousand, four hundred and eighty eight megabytes… of (let’s face it) mostly crap! It’s pretty obscene when you think about it. I feel dirty just having that much mail, and whilst over 30,000 of them are unread, at least 25,000 of *those* are just ‘notifications’ from the work website platform.
These are still big numbers in the email realm. Nothing to be proud of either. I should never have let it get that high, but in the grand scheme of life and work priorities, ‘pruning email’ doesn’t even rank. For most people, this is not a problem. For me even, in my person gmail, after 5 years i’m at a scant 4%.
Email, I’ll state for the record, sucks. It’s like a sickness. Good conversation on metafilter about it. I think one of the recipients participants there summed it up nicely:
Anyway, the point is, when gmail told me I could no longer SEND email, I had a hard choice:
- Spend time pruning my email down to, what, the “half a gig free” level?
- Create a new gmail account, forward new mail to it, swear to “keep this one clean!”
Life is too short – and my Nexus One can handily deal with multiple google accounts – so in a move inspired by a classic episode of “Porridge”, I have a new work email address – clean, and Freeeeeeeesssssssshhhhhhhhh… like new linen sheets. Mmmmm-hmmmmmm!
New mail to the old address gets sent through to the new one. I have a nagging feeling that there’s going to be some subtle unintended consquences here, but hey, at least I can send gmail now.
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i’ll be sure to sign you up for ALOT of spam
Al Gore is super persistant, about a year ago I signed a petition since then he’s emailed me from different accounts, with different subjects. i tried to filter it but he still get through ) and unsubscribing is purposely screwed up, by the time you’re at the success page you’re not sure if you succeeded or signed up for more spam ) wanna get on board? save the polar bears, ice caps AND fix pollution?