Wednesday, February 25, 2009

The one with Gmail

Is there anybody else out there with gmail accounts that in reality probably way a tonne, if indeed they could be weighed? My inbox just hit 12073 mails, which I reckon weighs at least a million tonnes, and not any of them carbon tonnes either. Many of them are unread. Simple things like forum replies, which I'd go direct to the forum as opposed to using the gmail link. And yes it is far too much trouble to click the delete button. 

Ive thought about cleaning the thing out, but its even more trouble to start clicking all the little boxes and then clicking the delete button. But is there any point in cleaning it out? I could just click delete all, but then I'd probably delete something that I'd want to read about in 6 years time. I guess when it explodes, I'll just get a new one! 

Life is tough!

*EDIT* Just worked out if I printed out all those emails (provided each one took 1 sheet) the whole lot would weigh around 34 stone or 482lbs or even better still, 218, 631 grams. Ok so a little exaggerated with the million tonnes!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Jeeeebus, that's a lot of unread email.

There's a trick you can do with gmail - put "label:unread" in the search box, minus the ""'s obviously and it will bring up all your unread email. You can then select all to delete. It'll delete all on that page though so it would still probably take you forever!

Vic Barry said...

Hi Annee
Well theres 6,000 odd unread :) Mainly shite, but ya never now. Cheers for the idea of the label. Ive more labels in it that BT's but never thought of the unread label! Good one!

Anonymous said...

* looks at inbox *

7354 e-mails total. Although it doesn't include anything before the 29th October 2007. So whatever from them to January of that year doesn't count, but probably doesn't amount to much...