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Re:On branching by fexl on Tuesday February 02, 2010 @08:52PM (#1096836)
I like the trash metaphor. I haven't formalized it yet, but often I will simply "mv" things to ~/old or ~/tmp and let it rot there for a few months. Thanks for the tip, I'll check it out.
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Re:On branching by eru on Tuesday February 02, 2010 @10:16PM (#1096970)
I quite like the way Gmail handles this issue. Stuff just goes stale and drops of the first page of your inbox. But it's still there --- and I now feel that it's barbaric to delete emails.
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