Oldest messages are from 7/22/05. 77Mbytes in the last 11 months (about 3%
of disk space allowed), 5600 messages. At this rate it will take 30 years to
fill it up, except they keep adding more allowed memory. I use this account
only for Gerry so it's easy to track. And nothing ever gets deleted.
For a normal mail service, it can be annoying not having folders to stuff
things into, but for this application, the thread and label concept works
well. I have mine set so I don't get the continual messaging promts that
popped up a couple of months ago.

tim in Googletown USA (Also EBayville)

On 6/6/06, honemastert <honemastert@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I've been doing this for a while,
> total of 809 messages, all the
> way back as far as Gerry would let
> me pull them.  about 500mb is all
> (see below) you have to figure out the
> magic incantations to have the listserv
> ship you the articles.  Even then, I found
> some gaps, etc:
>
> The problem is that Gmail truncates the
> messages, so it still needs a bit
> of massaging.
>
> You can put google desktop on your
> PC as well and point it to that same
> gmail account and let it index away.
>
> I use it mainly to index my unwieldly
> amount of email and archives from the
> past 10 years on the job, the vanagon
> index is a side benefit.
>
> (I turn off the indexing of my web history
> as well as the 'cache on googles pages'
> feature, in the interest of some modicum of
> security / privacy :-)
>
> Not perfect, but sometimes works when I dont
> want to wade through or wait for 'Gerry' to get
> back with results.
>
> Havent really had the time or inclination to
> work on it further, but could be easily automated
> by a programmer with some time on his/her hands
> (i.e. retired?)
>
> -tim
>
> 90 syncro westy
> mesa, az
>

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