Reorganising Email

[active_apathy]

I think I'm going to start archiving things more than two months old, so that I don't wind up spending another whole hour shuffling emails about my account - as you do when you notice there's a thousand threads hanging about in your inbox. Thus commenced much searching, labelling and archiving, and a little bit of deleting for things that I really didn't want anymore.

This is what alerted me to the strangest feature of Gmail - you never notice just how much mail there actually is. "You are currently using 43 MB (2%) of your 2401 MB" is just a cunning cover for "You have 1857 threads in your email account, some of which are well over 100 individual emails". There's something truly scary about numbers like that, probably because the last time I really cared about how many emails there were I had a hotmail account with a generous limit of 5MB.

One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven threads, easily twenty to twenty-five thousand individual emails, and I'd consider the volume of email that passes through my account to be fairly light. This may also be because, if I wake up and have fifty messages waiting, they've been folded into ten or eleven compact, easy-to-read threads.

In other news, my Marvin has been slightly tweaked. I'm tempted to adjust him based on other events - xmas Marvin, GoF movie Marvin, NYE Marvin, the Easter Android, and so forth. [[Edit: The following isn't intentionally Marvin-esque. The note about the icon is here, because I wanted the pretend Gmail thing to be at the end of the post. Still, it did sound that way, didn't it. Oh well. Google won't like it.]]



You are currently using 43 MB (2%) of your 2401 MB.

Honestly, we don't know why you bothered looking at this bit. You'd have to be extraordinarily popular to need to worry about it, oh ye of millions of emails - and by that stage, we're actually kinda happy that you're not using dead-tree letters for all of this. Still, we're reprogramming your Gmail notifier to just tell you that everyone in the entire world has emailed you.

Twice.

Comments

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

Metaquoted again. Lovely. Brain the size of a planet, and the best the humans can do is boil down my pithy parts and amuse themselves with them.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

The last bit wasn't deliberately Marvin-ish; see edit for details.

Oh, and, whee!

[herekittykitty.livejournal.com]

Whoa, I'm taking up more space that you!! I've also had it since the dawn of time, when it's not being dumb and all freeze-like.


You are currently using 153 MB (6%) of your 2404 MB.

also, I love the icon.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Maybe my account's just tinylikewhoa. Still, 153MB isn't that much - and it sneakily means that they don't need to have anywhere near 2GB of space available for everyone, since what space is available is just shared around partly-full accounts.

Also, thanks! I know why I don't have a copy yet, but why should Marvin have to wait? He even dressed up for it!

[herekittykitty.livejournal.com]

Which was my thoughts too- My guess is that there is maybe 1/2 a gig for each user. and hell, I've got 5 accounts, and i'm barely using a 1/6th of one.

Why don't you have a copy yet??

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

They have rather massive server farms running a special filesystem they developed in-house, that runs Google Groups and Labs and Search and Archives and Froogle and all things else, so they aren't exactly at a shortage of space. I was, however, thinking about it earlier, and they could probably fit 3-400 users on a single 100GB drive. Not that they'd actually be using single drives, I might add.

I don't have a copy because I haven't read the other five, so I'm going to wait until I can buy all six at once so that they all look the same.

[herekittykitty.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I'm admiring Google. They may be creepy, but they're brilliant.

You know there's 7 books, right?

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Indeed they are. Fortunately, their philosophy is "Don't be evil".

Only if the seventh one's released before the other six are released as a nice, pretty set.

[herekittykitty.livejournal.com]

Probably, on the book thing. However, they may just want to wait so all the books are out. *shrug* Never know though.

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

Like the tweak, and also like the idea of a topical Marvin Snape.

And GMail---*giggle*, but you're spot-on.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Thankyou kindly.

And it's very much like that, except for some people with millions of thousands of big attachments. But they're silly, so we'll overlook them.