Instant message clean up

[fstedy]

 smiley_old_guy  Done the Deed

[UNCLEBUCK]

 OK dump away , I got rid of all my love letters to asy  

[Dan_Shade]

no love letters here, not sure that I want any that can flip an 900 lb cant!   but then again... these days, it may be welcome!

i got three important ones that need saved!  thanks for the notice, Jeff!

[Bill]

Just purged myself   ;D   - DanG  'puter  keeping all that trash

[SwampDonkey]

I thought I'de better make a follow-up note to by first thread. I cleaned out my messages and posted the message and thought I'de try some new smilies. ;D ;)

[asy]

Ok, I'm done.

I cleaned out, and now I've got 6 messages there. They's important ones.

I deleted all the messages from da boss tellin' me what's what around da forum. 

I deleted all the messages from Roxie, keepin' me up to date with all the info around da forum.  :D

I deleted all the messages from Tom, nicely explainin' what's what around da USA.  ???

I deleted all the love letters from Buck, but not before I saved them all. 

I deleted all the messages from everyone else.  :'(

I'm ready to go. Except the 6 I kept.

asy :D

[Bibbyman]

I once heard a story about Henry Ford.  Apparently he kept every scrap of correspondence – no matter how trivial. After 20-30 years it filled a warehouse.  One day his sectary sent him a memo asking if they could purge some of it.  He sent the memo back that it'd be OK .... but make a copy of everything first.  :

I had about a dozen that contained "open business" and I cut, pasted them into a Word document and saved that.

[pappy]

I was under the impression we could keep a minimum of twenty messages in there  :P

[Jeff]

If you mean maximum, thats the way the old system was. 20

On this system I can set the amount or leave it unlimited. I now find that unlimited "Might" have an adverse effect on how the system works since most of us just let the bottomless boxes become big storage bins, myself included. I clean mine every few weeks but I get an unreal amount of messages and they add up fast.

[IL Bull]

Done

[pappy]

oops I did mean "maximum" sorry   :


and I've been so good at keeping just the im po tant ones... ;) oh well things do need a changin' some times...

Server disk space does cost and I would imagine cleaning out the closets will be a saveings...

Guts mine taken care of...

[Jeff]

Its not so much the cost, in fact its not that at all. We are having some "issues" with the system apparently and I am trying to tweak it out and find whats going on.  Sounds like so far that cleaning out messages is helping performance of the messaging system.

[oakiemac]

I tought we were limited to just 20??

[wiam]

I have one.  Do I need to dump it?

Will

[iain]

There you go i dumped my 6 after writing down the info ;D
then read the "you can keep 20" bit :

so i did all that writing for nowt >:(
(two phone numbers) :D

iain

[iain]

There you go i dumped my 6 after writing down the info ;D
then read the "you can keep 20" bit :

so i did all that writing for nowt >:(
(two phone numbers) :D

iain

[SwampDonkey]

I see the double posting still works. 

[Jeff]

I never said you could keep 20. :D    In the old forum software there was a 20 message limit. you can get as many as you want but the storage was only 20. Thats what others have mentioned.  Right now we have quite a decrease in the total amount of data stored in the instant message tables, and if that continues, I wont need to set any phisical limits.

[VA-Sawyer]

I was feeling guilty till I read about the Boss having 6000 IM's !  I only had about 75/75 in my inbox/outbox. Cleaned it down to 24/2. Hope it helps.
VA-Sawyer

[Jeff]

I get upwards somedays of over 100 a day. If I answer each one, which I TRY to do, that is another 100 in the outbox. So, if I get 100, reply to a hundred, and the people that sent me messages each are keeping a copy in thier out boxes, that can amount to 400 copies a day just becasue of correspondance with me. 

[brdmkr]

All done.  Thanks for the heads-up.