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Re: [OM] How many messages do you usually keep handy?

Subject: Re: [OM] How many messages do you usually keep handy?
From: "Brian Swale" <bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 09:36:05 +1300
Hi,

I get the digest only, except when people send me a prior copy of their 
posting.

What I try to do is snip out the messages of value and save them in a set of 
text files, and delete the digest. Some of the time. I admit I'm not good at 
doing it without fail and I have too many digests in my *in tray* awaiting 
processing.

For what it's worth, this is what I do with nearly all my program icons (I'm 
using Windows '95 !!) and I have dozens of them.

I right-click on the desktop and open up a new folder; and re-name it to 
whatever I want. Into this I drag a shortcut icon for whatever it is I want to 
open from there. (Use explorer to find the txt file, exe file, or whatever and 
right-click on the file name, create shortcut). Drag the shortcut into the 
folder.

When I open explorer, I have it always open in reduced size as a vertical 
panel on the RHS. Thus I can see most of the desktop, and it is easy to drag 
icons from it into something else.

The important shortcut folders and icons are around the periphery of my 
desktop. Editors, ftp agents, browsers, utilities, FAX manager and so on.

When I run Pegasus and Opera, they are configured to open and run at just 
a bit less than the full screen size, so that around their edge I can see 
enough of the important shortcuts on the desktop for me to be able to open 
them very quickly and without fuss.

I developed this system out of frustration with Virtual Desktop programs that 
wouldn't work for me. This works better than they do, and it uses Windows 
own abilities without some arbitrary limitation somebody has dreamed up.

The digests are available in the online archive, for all the world to see.. 
Google finds them.

Brian

> >I'm at 2037 messages in my Olympus folder now and,
> >was thinking about getting around to deleting some of the older ones.
> >That's a little over 12 days worth - since I signed up.

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