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1. Electoral advice, backed by statistics: Should Democrats move to the left on economic policy? No.
2. Do you hoard or delete emails? What does that say about your personality? I delete.
3. America's orchestras have a new recording deal.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on August 11, 2006 at 11:49 AM in Web/Tech | Permalink
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And the missing #2 is ...?
Posted by: Peter at Aug 11, 2006 11:59:37 AM
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Posted by: Dan Kahn at Aug 11, 2006 12:43:32 PM
Why not just switch to g-mail rather than deleting. If you do that, hording has a clear practical function. It's not like space is practically limited.
Posted by: michael vassar at Aug 11, 2006 12:45:31 PM
I tend to horde emails. This is has become very useful since I got desktop search. Now, whenever I need to find some obscure piece of information, I enter a few keywords and an old email from 1-2 years ago often pops up with the answer. Can't imagine deleting all of my old stuff.
Posted by: Alex at Aug 11, 2006 1:29:25 PM
I purge most old emails in my personal account, but keep work emails in my work account pretty much forever; I'll get someone asking about a six month old email fairly frequently.
Posted by: Foobarista at Aug 11, 2006 4:03:36 PM
Foobarista: Your company's lawyers might not like that too much! I don't think corporate lawyers consider "potentially incriminating email" and "kept forever" to be two great tastes that taste great together :-)
I tend to save a lot of personal emails, archiving them off in folders arranged by years. That way they're out of the way, and it might be fun in 2040 to have a collection of emails spanning all the way back to the early days of the Net. (Well, maybe early middle days -- I was one of the mid-90s adopters.)
Posted by: Scott C. at Aug 11, 2006 4:15:28 PM
The article about e-mail says: "You wouldn't store your bills inside your mailbox."
No, you don't store mail in your mailbox at home, but that's because a "real" mailbox has limited space and no "search" function.
Posted by: Julie at Aug 11, 2006 4:17:53 PM
I leave anything that hasn't been replied to in "inbox". As soon as I reply (if needed) I move to one storage folder or another.
I'm good at keeping my inbox under control. After a "session" with email I usually have 0-2 emails left in the inbox that still need a reply or other action.
On the other hand, my private email address probably only gets 40-50 messages a day. If I got hundreds of day it would be a tougher job. . .
Posted by: Matthew Cromer at Aug 11, 2006 7:09:26 PM
The voting model stuff is interesting, but any model that assumes voters to be completely rational and issue-oriented will come to questionable conclusions. Voters are, after all, usually in agreement with the Democratic side on a majority of issues. Election results, alas, haven't skewed that way.
Posted by: Matt Rognlie at Aug 12, 2006 3:20:54 AM
I thought the point of campaigns was to convince people of things.
Posted by: Kimmitt at Aug 14, 2006 1:10:32 AM
The 'hoard or delete' article seems confused -- it conflates the difference of getting behind on correspondence and having lots of *unanswered* emails in your inbox vs keeping messages around even after you've answered them.
I don't really get behind, but I do keep everything because, well, why on earth not? Hard disks expand *much* faster than my email accumulates. My email archive (combined with search) is my most effective memory aid.
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