Email Space
I’m quite disappointed that I am not allowed to archive my email messages at work locally. Our Lotus Notes mail server allotment is a 200-megabyte pittance that I often bump into, even with careful pruning of large attachments. (Honestly, thank you so much for emailing the entire team 60 megs of wedding photos, unnamed person on my team.)
Part of this problem is that I’m a packrat, both online and in meatspace. I am enamored with the idea of being able to reference all of my email communication back over the years and dig out any of the important details, and I’ve already used Gmail countless times to backtrack in different ways. Where is that source for cheap batteries? Is that item I purchased still within the warranty period? What was I up to that day I supposedly earned a parking ticket?
Alas, I can’t move any of my messages to local storage for future reference. It’s understandable, as our software setup is predicated on the idea that we could pick up and do all our work from any PC on the network without any downtime, but it’s still frustrating to have to go through and delete valuable emails every few weeks. I’ll never get that data back!
January 16th, 2006 at 10:15 pm
I hate Lotus Notes. We use it at The New Job. I’d never used it before, and I would’ve been happy if I’d never had to. It seriously sucks balls.
January 18th, 2006 at 12:27 pm
they burn ours to a CD if we overstep the limit. Like I am ever going to pull that out of the drawer and pop it in my PC.