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Offline Phillip Dampier

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A Word About Private Messages
« on: April 02, 2006, 12:00:46 am »
To manage growth efficiently on BetterMost, please delete private messages you no longer need to keep in your boxes.  There is no limit on the number of messages you can send and receive, but it can be easy to pile up a huge number of them if you forget to clean them out from time to time.  There is no issue with this right now, but I like to encourage good housekeeping practices here.

If you want to keep a copy of the message you are sending, you need to check the box that saves a copy of your message in your outbox.  Remember to clean those out when you no longer need them as well.  :)
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Re: A Word About Private Messages
« Reply #1 on: August 14, 2007, 04:05:37 pm »
Oh no ... not more cleaning!  I've got nearly 400 messages, I'll get right onto it, thanks Phillip.


Susie

You're not the only one Susie! I have about 200 sitting in my inbox too.

Thanks for the reminder Phillip.  :)
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Re: A Word About Private Messages
« Reply #2 on: August 14, 2007, 07:11:13 pm »
Okay, I don't feel so bad anymore about my current fifty-nine! :P

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Re: A Word About Private Messages
« Reply #3 on: August 14, 2007, 07:51:16 pm »

Let me guess Jess .... 6,534?

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Re: A Word About Private Messages
« Reply #4 on: August 15, 2007, 02:09:01 am »
I haven't been good about culling lately.  Will work on it over the course of this week. 

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Re: A Word About Private Messages
« Reply #5 on: August 15, 2007, 06:30:59 am »
Guess I can delete 2 or 3 from my 374  ;D. Thanks for reminding, I´ve always been a bad houswife!

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Re: A Word About Private Messages
« Reply #6 on: August 15, 2007, 04:41:37 pm »



       I deleated over half of mine day yesterday.....hope thats enough



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Re: A Word About Private Messages
« Reply #7 on: August 15, 2007, 04:56:19 pm »
Tut tut tut Jess!

I knew it David  ... she's all talk and no trousers!

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I could have told you that a long time ago, Susie! All you had to do was ask me!  ;)

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Re: A Word About Private Messages
« Reply #8 on: August 15, 2007, 07:30:54 pm »
Hehehe  ... you will protect me from her when she comes to get me ... won't you?

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If I keep pickin on Jess the way I have, I might need someone to protect me!!  ;)
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Re: A Word About Private Messages
« Reply #9 on: August 15, 2007, 07:33:48 pm »
Cody will!  ;)
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Re: A Word About Private Messages
« Reply #10 on: August 15, 2007, 07:58:53 pm »
Cody will!  ;)

Cody will?

 :laugh: :laugh:

Whew! He might pin her down and kiss her, but that's about as much protection as I will get from HIM!  >:(

 ;)  ;)

I'll protect you David my dear!

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Re: A Word About Private Messages
« Reply #11 on: August 20, 2007, 12:17:54 pm »
Cody will?

 :laugh: :laugh:

Whew! He might pin her down and kiss her, but that's about as much protection as I will get from HIM!  >:(

 

Oh, seems you have the same kind of dog I have: the I-LOVE-everybody kind of dog. Mine loves all humans and all dogs, without exception.
Not once in more than 6 years did he have a fight with another dog and he wouldn't be worth his feed if he were expected to be a watchdog - and that's exactly the type of dog I always wanted to have: relaxed, friendly and easy-going with everything and everybody.


Back on topic: I deleted about 150 PMs today  (::)) and will go through my outbox the next days.

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Re: A Word About Private Messages
« Reply #12 on: August 20, 2007, 01:57:48 pm »
man How long do we have to Prune?
I would like to print some out and save them. I hate to throw anything out!  :laugh:
I know I have too many!
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Re: A Word About Private Messages
« Reply #13 on: August 20, 2007, 01:59:26 pm »
man How long do we have to Prune?
I would like to print some out and save them. I hate to throw anything out!  :laugh:
I know I have too many!


Admin have no access to your PMs.  We're just askin' you to get to it as you can. 

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Re: A Word About Private Messages
« Reply #14 on: August 20, 2007, 02:01:44 pm »
ok. I will start prunin now! ;D
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Re: A Word About Private Messages
« Reply #15 on: August 20, 2007, 02:26:32 pm »
You can always cut them and paste them to a word document if you are sentimental, and there is nothing wrong with being sentimental.  :-*
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Re: A Word About Private Messages
« Reply #16 on: August 20, 2007, 05:53:21 pm »
I want to remind everyone there is no dire need to delete messages if you think you need to refer back to them.  We have plenty of disk space.  But some folks never delete their old PM's and they accumulate, sometimes into the thousands.  This just wastes resources, which is why we like people to tackle deleting those they don't need anymore.  Do 50 a day and you'll be okay.  If folks did this regularly, you wouldn't be confronted with a ton of messages all at once to deal with.

We've gotten back an entire megabyte of disk space in just the last 24 hours, which means there were quite a few messages just sucking up space.  But you need not sacrifice messages if you think you still need them.
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Re: A Word About Private Messages
« Reply #17 on: August 20, 2007, 07:59:24 pm »
Guys, let's not get too bent out of shape about this stuff.  No worries here - let's just keep moving forward.  :)
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Re: A Word About Private Messages
« Reply #18 on: August 20, 2007, 08:08:53 pm »

We've gotten back an entire megabyte of disk space in just the last 24 hours, which means there were quite a few messages just sucking up space.  But you need not sacrifice messages if you think you still need them.


A little of that was me, I've gone down from 87 pages of inbox to 82.  I'm shooting for 50.

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Re: A Word About Private Messages
« Reply #19 on: August 21, 2007, 08:22:40 am »

A little of that was me, I've gone down from 87 pages of inbox to 82.  I'm shooting for 50.
Me too! LOL
I think I deleted 500! LOL
I am a pack rat!  :laugh:
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Re: A Word About Private Messages
« Reply #20 on: August 21, 2007, 12:14:37 pm »
Since I was probably one of the worst offenders (I am not going to admit how many messages I had)....

I just went in and did a big major PRUNE. Anything older than 30 days is gone. I started to read some of the old messages from friends who no longer post regularly and said, oh, I can't delete these...but I must. And I did.

And now I only have 116 messages. Phillip, you probably got 2 gb on me alone! LOL

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Re: A Word About Private Messages
« Reply #21 on: August 21, 2007, 12:53:32 pm »
You can always cut them and paste them to a word document if you are sentimental, and there is nothing wrong with being sentimental.  :-*

True, and sweet! I'm dedicating yours to a document of your own!!

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Re: A Word About Private Messages
« Reply #22 on: August 21, 2007, 10:59:23 pm »
Since I was probably one of the worst offenders (I am not going to admit how many messages I had)....

I just went in and did a big major PRUNE. Anything older than 30 days is gone. I started to read some of the old messages from friends who no longer post regularly and said, oh, I can't delete these...but I must. And I did.

And now I only have 116 messages. Phillip, you probably got 2 gb on me alone! LOL

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Re: A Word About Private Messages
« Reply #23 on: August 23, 2007, 05:27:13 pm »
well i had 32 pages to start with and i now have 20 after a short prune
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