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Original Post: Out to the woodshed
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Phil Ringnalda says out loud what I've thought many times - and I'm sure many others have as well:
After just a few months, 3% of my unimaginably huge 1GB GMail storage has been used up by atom-syntax. If you are among the people whose name I can search on and be shown "1-20 of hundreds" of messages, if your typical quote:content ratio is huge, if every single thread of a hundred or more messages (there's at least one such burning all the time) prominently features you, you, you, you might want to consider whether this mess would clear up if someone took you out and shot you. Lord knows the rest of us are considering it.