Garbage collection and hotmail
What algorithims do you use to clean up your web-based e-mail account when out of storage space?
Mine are first a size based pass, then going through the recent messages and deleting them.
My approach is that which is done in OO memory management systems…. My inbox has a spot for young, tenured, and permanent members. Young messages are often deleted quickly, but the tenured ones hang around longer, and permanent ones speak for themselves. When deleting messages I am often going for size, and my first sort is actually done by size, but my eye is looking for new messages to delete.
seems to me like there is a feature for someone to implement…. a link to e-mails that could be deleted, where the link points to a list of e-mails ordered by size and date. Smarter features would include suggesting e-mails to delete because similar ones had been deleted before without being read, and removing ones from the list that don’t get deleted while others do.