We live in an era when disk space is so cheap that it takes more effort to delete something than to just let it sit around somewhere on my disk. For example, a client emailed me today asking whether such and such had happened. It happened sometime in May 2006, but I couldn't provide more detail than that. Because of limitations on my Palm Pilot, I have to purge my appointment book every so often to maintain decent performance. Were that not the case, I could have found exactly what they wanted (maybe I'll start archiving my calendar and to do lists in iCalendar files).
Gmail inspired me on this. Although I don't use Gmail for my email (since it doesn't support IMAP), I do have a copy of every email I've sent or received since 23 April 2005. Because of mutt's pattern language, I can find almost any email in that pile in less than a minute.
Ah, the wonders of modern technology. If your valuable data is being deleted, let me know. I think the design should be reevaluated.
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