[TowerTalk] What is 4,000 reflector messages in terms of drive space?

[Rick Bullon]

>>Oh yes.......there were 4K messages in the Deleted Items area, I did 
not
>have the empty the deleted files switch on.......and for what it is 
worth,
>Win95 tells me that I have gained 23MB since dumping the 
messages.....so, a
>thousand typical reflector messages is about 5.75mb of hard drive
>space......in a year that would be roughly 100mb of "trashed" 
mail.....so,
>I feel relieved that the theory my father and I have about how much 
crud
>there is on these things is true......about 100MB a year true!
>
>Just a thought.
>  
>73,
>
>Jim, K4OJ
______________________________________________________________________
  Jim here is a way to save a lot of Hard drive space. Get a web based 
email account like hotmail Yahoo mail etc, then you don't download 
anything to your harddrive. It all srtays on thier sever. If you see a 
message you want to keep forward it to your personal email account. That 
wayall the junk you don't care about never gets on your drive.
  Another benifit is that you see all the mesage headers before you read 
the messages and you can delete them first then read read the ones that 
sound interesting.
 This is w


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