Spam

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Originally uploaded by cursedthing

And I did a test today. I use about 2.6 gigabytes of my 4 gigs of space with my e-mail at gmail. There was a time, when the available space was more like 2,5 gigs or 3, when I was nearing the 80% of it used up.
I took a look at my spam folder and saw that I had almost 8000 messages in there. Wow, this all only in the last 30 days! Great filter, works really neatly. I have to divert some messages there from time to time, but it is really not a problem for me anymore.
So I wanted to see if, deleting all the spam in there, I would gain a significant amount of storage space back. Well, sorry to disappoint you, but all that spam ammounted to less than 100 MB. Too bad. Or not.
Now that I know that the accumulated spam of 30 days is actually insignificant compared to my total mail ammount in terms of storage space it takes, I will never clean that folder again. This means that, even if I get some important e-mail automatically diverted by mistake to spam, I will have 30 days to know about it and retrieve it. That's good enough for me, I will not worry about spam no more.