[MLUG - DISCUSSION] careful with Gmail

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I've been forwarding tons of messages through my regular e-mail address to 
gmail.  Now I'm thinking I want to delete some mesasages.  I have 160 MB 
of e-mail.  So, I think I'll delete every message from medscape.  This is 
what I have to do:

search for messages from medscape (say I have 1,000 of them)
   (this shows me a page with 20 messages [1-20 of about 1000 total])
repeat the following process 50 times (getting only 20 messages at a time)
   select 'all'
   click 'more actions'
   click 'move to trash'
   wait 7 seconds
end repeated process
go to Trash
repeat the following process 10 or more times (to Delete Forever up to 100 at a time)
   select 100 of the trashed messages (which are intermingled with old
        trashed messages that you may not want to delete forever at this moment)
   click Delete Forever
end repeated process

Suppose you wanted to delete 10,000 messages.  How would you do that?  It 
would be so annoying that you probably wouldn't do it.  You'd have to 
repeat the maddening second step 500 times at about 10 seconds apiece. 
Then you'd have to repeat the selection/deletion procedure in Trash 
another 100 times.  That adds up to thousands of mouse clicks and hours of 
work.

But what about automatic deletion of files in Trash?  Gmail promises they 
will be deleted automatically after 30 days.  Wrong - I have about 15 
messages sitting in my Trash since mid-September and none has been 
deleted.  Gmail has never autodeleted a single message from my Trash. 
Why not?  they don't want to delete them.  They want my data!

You've been warned!

Henceforth, I use gmail much more conservatively and cautiously.

Mike
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