Re: Archive File Size

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Ding Bat <billyg1943@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Dear Bill, Please add to Oultook Wish List:  archiving by other dates
too!

This doesn't seem reasonable to me. An archive should contain items in which you've shown no interest (i.e., haven't referenced) in a particular period of time. Opening, moving, or otherwise manipulating a message, no matter how long ago it was created, indicates that the message contains information relevent to the present. Thus, the modified date seems the only reasonable measure of whether or not a message should be archived _by automatic means_. Archiving by other dates via an automatic process couldn't help but include items recently referenced that, potentially, are of current interest. unless every single item had a new attribute diabling archiving for that item, which would be an administrative nightmare. People would set it, forget it was set and then, months later wonder why items weren't being archived, just as they do now, only finding the reason would be much more problematic due to the number of items that would have to be examined individually. I just don't see this as viable.
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Brian Tillman 

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