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Question: What is the date of the oldest e-mail you've in your inbox?
Less than a week   -21 (19.4%)
A few months   -17 (15.7%)
Received in 2007   -15 (13.9%)
Received in 2006   -10 (9.3%)
Received in 2005   -10 (9.3%)
Received in 2004   -6 (5.6%)
Received in 2003   -8 (7.4%)
2002 or older   -21 (19.4%)
Total Voters: 104

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« on: May 03, 2008, 12:11:36 AM »
For the month of May we thought it would be interesting to know what the date of the oldest e-mail you've saved in your inbox? Feel free to tell us about the e-mail, why you're keeping it, etc.

All past monthly polls and results can also be found on the Computer Hope poll page.
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« Reply #1 on: May 03, 2008, 12:57:00 AM »
I'm a lightweight in this department.  Between switching ISP's and losing a bunch of stuff that was on my backup device  Angry I can only go back to '05.
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« Reply #2 on: May 03, 2008, 01:51:16 PM »
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Feel free to tell us about the e-mail, why you're keeping it, etc.

I found an email from DJST dated 9 Jun 2000. It contains the key for my Texturizer editor which I bought back in the day for $20 USD.

I kept it because I knew someday, someone, would have a poll about this and I wanted to have a ready answer.  Grin
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« Reply #3 on: May 03, 2008, 01:54:56 PM »
2002 for my Hotmail inbox. I have some older ones (back to 1999) archived in Outlook, but since they're technically not in my inbox, I guess they don't count.
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« Reply #4 on: May 04, 2008, 06:21:01 AM »
2006 for my Gmail, I tend to clean out most stuff though.
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« Reply #5 on: May 04, 2008, 09:47:38 AM »
Quote from: Computer Hope Admin on May 03, 2008, 12:11:36 AM
Feel free to tell us about the e-mail, why you're keeping it, etc.

2006 in my Yahoo mail. The subject is "a picture for you" Shocked
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« Reply #6 on: May 05, 2008, 12:51:04 AM »
My oldest is January of '05. Looks like we're all pack rats when it comes to e-mail.
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« Reply #7 on: May 05, 2008, 02:58:58 AM »
I'm using less than 10% of Hotmail's limit and have all my mail since 2002 when I opened that account. My Outlook (Gmail) account gets cleaned and archived regularly, oldest thing in there is Feb '08.
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« Reply #8 on: May 05, 2008, 04:01:03 AM »
Wow that's pretty crazy you've got all your mail saved quaxo. So what is the first e-mail you've got in 2002?
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« Reply #9 on: May 05, 2008, 07:12:44 AM »
I currently have 575 items in my inbox.  There are a lot of things I want to keep.  But there are many more that I just wanted to keep for a little while, but haven't gotten around to reevaluating and purging.  Keeping up with it is a full-time job.
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« Reply #10 on: May 05, 2008, 07:41:33 AM »
Quote from: Computer Hope Admin on May 05, 2008, 04:01:03 AM
Wow that's pretty crazy you've got all your mail saved quaxo. So what is the first e-mail you've got in 2002?

The one in the screen shot, January 18, 2002.
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« Reply #11 on: May 05, 2008, 09:22:40 AM »
I have many folders in Outlook Express, to organize my email.  So, if I include folders other than Inbox, I believe the oldest email I have is dated 3/18/1999.  It's a message from my son who was living in another state at the time.  It's in a folder setup just for mail from him.  I tend to keep some email for a long time, which I why I setup folders so that it doesn't all accumulate in my Inbox.
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« Reply #12 on: May 05, 2008, 09:47:17 AM »
My oldest one is from 2006, that's when I set up Thunderbird for my gmail account.

Actually I cheated, cause I have no mail in my inbox, all the mail I recieve is directly moved into folders, or deleted.
And than if it's a folder not for family or friends, I have set a retention policy for them (like newsletters and such). And about once a month, I log in on the web, and clean that out.
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« Reply #13 on: May 06, 2008, 05:15:09 AM »
I have kept my e-mail so long becaise I have Yahoo Mail with unlimited storage, and find no need to delete emails
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« Reply #14 on: May 08, 2008, 01:59:50 PM »
1998. I sent my Dad an E-mail from Formentera, a small desert island off the coast of Spain and sent myself a copy. I told him about the nude beaches and a beautiful blonde woman from Holland ( She resembled Meg Ryan [ before her botox reconstruction]) who had a very interesting array of piercings that looked like a golden zipper. Use your imagination..

and how I observed a very ingenious fellow who had a water proof camera, a snorkel, goggles and photographed the naked women swimmers, at a depth of about 10 feet. God, I searched everywhere for a waterproof camera but they were sold out. 
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« Reply #15 on: May 10, 2008, 06:11:05 PM »
2006... my very first inbox is something I no longer have.

If I could remember my first email address, I bet I could tell you what it was.

Speaking of email... I really need to call Microsoft and complain. My email hasnt been working right, ever since the notice: "Were updating your account!" came up... My account quite literally can not be updated.
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« Reply #16 on: May 10, 2008, 10:02:31 PM »
I started saving them when I figured out how to have them in chronological order rather than alphabetical order Cheesy
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« Reply #17 on: May 14, 2008, 09:28:50 PM »
My oldest Email would be an year old.
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« Reply #18 on: May 14, 2008, 09:32:32 PM »
2006.
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« Reply #19 on: May 14, 2008, 09:40:34 PM »
Gmail 3907 total messages, 2668 unread

Hotmail 2203 total messages, 1998 unread
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« Reply #20 on: May 14, 2008, 09:42:36 PM »
How can you read that many? o.O
In my Hotmail i have 6207
6034 unread..
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« Reply #21 on: May 15, 2008, 04:48:05 AM »
Fri, 8 Sep 2006 11:17:51 -0700 (EDT)

This is an e-mail where I had a windows 98 SE disk I didn't use anymore.

A college student posted on a forum for help, they could not get there old
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« Reply #22 on: May 16, 2008, 08:16:46 AM »
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How can you read that many? o.O
In my Hotmail i have 6207
6034 unread..

Don't you mean " How can you unread that many ".....

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« Reply #23 on: May 21, 2008, 03:37:35 AM »
Because this is a newer computer, my saved e-mails only go back to the end of 2007.  But I have old e-mails saved offline (in AOL backup files) from all the way back into the 90's.
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« Reply #24 on: May 21, 2008, 02:30:53 PM »
My oldest email is back in 2001.
It was an emial i had sent for my now ex-girlfriend. I saved a copy and had it sent to myself.
 the break up letter i still have from her to. its dated June 3,2007
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« Reply #25 on: May 21, 2008, 03:56:46 PM »
12099 read emails..

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« Reply #26 on: May 23, 2008, 04:53:37 AM »
My oldest is from last year: my policy is not to delete emails (Just in case I get sued or need to prove someone right\wrong, etc.) anymore, and I have over 3200 email messages, most accumalted in the past 3 months since we got the new Computy-doodle!
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« Reply #27 on: May 23, 2008, 05:40:48 AM »
If you have to worry about getting sued, you just might want to take some time to straighten out your priorities.
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« Reply #28 on: May 23, 2008, 07:13:35 AM »
Oldest message in my Hotmail was received Mon 7/03/00 7:11 AM.  I started that Hotmail account before Micro$oft bought them out.  Older messages would be in my Penn State email. 
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« Reply #29 on: May 24, 2008, 08:34:16 AM »


When i signed up for hotmail in 2004...
as you can see i dont use it much any more, mainly just for junk. 1694 inbox xD the junk filters are so awful compared to Gmail...
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« Reply #30 on: May 28, 2008, 05:22:33 PM »
Aww... I REALLY want the new Hotmail. They cant upgrade my account, so, I am stuck with the traditional one.
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« Reply #31 on: June 01, 2008, 12:45:49 PM »
I dont really check my mail but around a few months
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« Reply #32 on: June 02, 2008, 01:04:19 PM »
lol i got email older than 2002 archived but as not in inbox cant really say so 2002 for me  oldest mail i got  is belive it or not form 85 from quantimlink LOL yeah that old....

it was reg key for a progrma for comodore 64 system lol
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