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abide
Posts: 419
Joined: Dec 2019
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| Thursday, March 16, 2023 11:45 PM | |
About once every 6 months I delete messages from my in box and sent box.
I deleted a total of 2,500 today.
Is this a benefit to the website?
If everyone performed mailbox message maint, would the site have better performance?
Is there an official policy statement about this topic?
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"Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there." - John Wooden |
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Brendan Barrick
Posts: 439
Joined: Dec 2019
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| Friday, March 17, 2023 1:19 AM | |
I delete all my messages after I read them. Thank you for the tip regarding the sent box. I just 46 messages in this box.
Edited on: Mar 17, 2023 - 1:22AM
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vrooomed
Posts: 15,000
Joined: Dec 2012
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| Friday, March 17, 2023 5:03 AM | |
Uh oh. I may be bogging the whole site down:
Inbox - 17,819 message(s)
Sent Items - 26,559 message(s)
Only 248 in my deleted folder, but I do have 19 custom folders with who know how many messages.
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-- Dan -- Note: Please see my profile for more info regarding trading (section updated 3/4/2024). I have added a large portion of my inventory to the site, and currently have trading turned on (details are in my profile). |
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Hawthorne61
Posts: 108
Joined: Feb 2014
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| Friday, March 17, 2023 5:23 AM | |
There you go -- another three weeks' worth of work awaits.... 
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RonEaston
Posts: 1,079
Joined: Nov 2019
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| Friday, March 17, 2023 5:57 AM | |
Remember this in your end of year voting folks... ;)
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I'm mostly organizing over adding right now. |
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jasongerman9
Posts: 1,909
Joined: Jan 2015
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| Friday, March 17, 2023 6:07 AM | |
All jokes aside, I would assume that if message storage was a detriment to the site, Admin would periodically purge certain default folders, like "Deleted" and "Sent".
I just checked and I have nearly 5,000 messages in my "Deleted" box, dating back to 2017. Many of them that old are Match Alerts, and I would think that those would be some of the first ones removed from the system if it would benefit the Database.
Edited on: Mar 17, 2023 - 6:10AM
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I'll never quit collecting entirely, but I am downsizing. Check out my COMC store and help me thin out what I don't want so I can buy cards that I do want. See something you like? Send me a message on here, and we can knock the price down quite a bit. I'll even take a bit of a loss if it means getting you a card you really want. |
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vrooomed
Posts: 15,000
Joined: Dec 2012
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| Friday, March 17, 2023 6:09 AM | |
In my defense, I do have 10+ year's worth of messages there. But yes, I could probably clean a lot of it up.
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-- Dan -- Note: Please see my profile for more info regarding trading (section updated 3/4/2024). I have added a large portion of my inventory to the site, and currently have trading turned on (details are in my profile). |
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tenlbpain
Posts: 378
Joined: Aug 2015
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| Friday, March 17, 2023 6:29 AM | |
I've wondered the same thing myself. Much like abide I go through from time to time and clear out older messages. Whether or not it helps the site, it does help my compulsive tendencies.
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budler
Posts: 2,213
Joined: Dec 2017
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| Friday, March 17, 2023 9:17 AM | |
About a year ago I was having problems finding messages that I sent to members. I send out a lot of messages asking If we can do a deal.
At that time I started to remove all Send messages labeled Transaction Update and Transaction Messages. I'm now doing a little more so I can keep aware of who/what/when I send out messages. I tried the custom folders but they do not work for me.
Maybe I will clean out my Deleted files in the same matter.
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mzentko
Posts: 2,481
Joined: Jun 2012
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| Friday, March 17, 2023 10:10 AM | |
I do like that this site does not care how many messages you keep 
many years ago when I was on another board, I could not send a message out until I deleted more messages and I had less than 100 total....it was super inconvenient at the time since I was about to leave to go to dinner or something..
I like being able to sort by member to see if we have messaged in the past sometimes.
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