Hi Paul,
Since signing up for your news letter, I have been totally enthralled by all
the info about this fantastic engine.
I will definitely be using one for my next homebuilt.
However, I am being inundated by repeat emails on the same subject.
Every email is being sent to me three or four times.
Is there any way I can set up my email account or anything else I can do so
that I only receive each email only once?
Edwin
Melbourne
Australia
It does appear that way. We do things a bit differently than most. We attach new
messages at the bottom of old messages so if you just look at the top you
don't see any differences. You have to press the down arrow key to see the new
parts.
We started that 12 years ago to preserve the chronological order and
all the information on a particular subject. This gets new comers up
to speed quickly.
The minor down side is it takes
a bit more space on a hard drive but hard drive size has exploded over time.
Back in the early days 20 meg (20,000,000) was a typical hard drive. Now 100 gig
(100,000,000,000) drives are typical. If my arithmetic is right that is
5000 times larger. A typical plain text message is only 1,000 bytes so a
typical hard drive will hold 100 million messages. A drop in the ocean.
It is a bit like our average wage compared to the U.S. national debt:)
New drives are pushing 1000 times larger than that.
My suggestion is make thread folders on your hard drive and save the last
messages in a thread to that along with any pictures. Another way is make
dated inbox folders and export your inbox periodically. Say every six months.
I make back ups of my inbox but I keep at least a years worth or more so I can
easily search for subjects brought up in the past.
I also use two 500 gig hard drives to keep a back up of everything as one hard
drive could fail. That is easy to do if one chooses the right computer box.
If you don't have the right box that can hold two hard drives one can buy
a USB external hard drive that will back up automatically. The minor down side
is it slows you computer somewhat.
Paul Lamar
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