kt moxie

Here's my latest response to the parley question,

"What's the oldest message in your email? And why are you holding onto it?"

While Nicole is a pack rat, I'm an obsessive organizer of my email.  (Actually, I'm an obsessive organizer of everything.)  I hate my inbox clogging up with irrelevant emails.  I periodically go through my inboxes (both work & home) and clear out all emails except ones I still need to "do something" about.  My emails are also automatically sorted into folders by subject line or author.  This way, I know any email that comes into my actual inbox should be reviewed now.  These inbox emails are eventually deleted or sorted into the right folder, too.

The oldest email in my current inbox is my confirmation from Contiki for our trip to Hawaii in January!  It's dated Nov. 8, 2005.  I'm keeping it as a record of my confirmation.  Or maybe I kept it to remind me we are going to Hawaii!

My oldest archived email is from Nov 22, 2000 (Ha!  Over 5 years!  I got you beat Nicole!).  It's from a headhunter.  The one that got me a job.  I guess I decided to keep it just in case I needed to contact her again.  Ironically, I know through the grapevine (the IT community in Detroit is VERY small and VERY inbred) that she is no longer working for that headhunter company.  In fact, I heard she was in real estate!  I guess I can delete that email now.

Oh, I suppose I have even older emails.  I have archive files of my older email accounts stored on a hard drive at home.  So, if you consider this, am I a pack rat, too?  If I am, I'm the librarian of the pack rats.