Mastodawn

Michael Bacon Aug 12, 2025

The UK government saying "delete old emails" to save water. 🤦‍♂️

Most emails average about 50k of storage even for someone who gets a lot of attachments, and will have exactly zero effect on data center consumption.

"Don't use cryptocurrency" and "don't use generative AI" would of course be thousands of times more effective.

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bjb

@MichaelTBacon
Also some people keep old emails so they can refer to them later.
If you delete them, you lose a little bit of your history ... one less reference for when you want to refer back to it when you suspect history has been re-written. So watch out for that.