yeah exactly, my reason for keeping them is that I might want ... • Aaron Parecki

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D. Schmudde https://mastodon.social/@schmudde • Oct 19
@aaronpk I have carefully downloaded folders and removed them from my SMTP server at this age. Turns out I have never searched such backups. Not even once. So deletion sounds like the way to go.

yeah exactly, my reason for keeping them is that I might want to be able to search them later. I'd say I've found value in some ~5 year old search results, but stuff from before 2010 is from a whole different world at this point.

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- D. Schmudde mastodon.social/@schmudde
  
  @aaronpk ah yes, before the Year of the Linux Desktop and the broadly liberating force of Bitcoin took hold. I’m just glad we now live in the distributed digital utopia we were promised.
  
  Tue, Oct 19, 2021 3:17am +00:00

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