[ale] End of year digital clean up?

[Jim Kinney]

EMP?  Extra Marital Programming?

On January 4, 2021 1:08:13 PM EST, Boris Borisov <bugyatl at gmail.com> wrote:
>What about EMP :)
>
>My data is disorganized.  I should give it thought.
>
>On Mon, Jan 4, 2021, 13:02 Jim Kinney via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On January 4, 2021 12:49:05 PM EST, DJ-Pfulio via Ale <ale at ale.org>
>wrote:
>> >I've had my list of new-year digital cleanup tasks for
>> >about a decade, but it can always be improved.
>>
>> Indeed!
>> >
>> >What do you do every year to clean up your data, email, photos,
>> >documents, ebooks, backups, retired credentials?
>>
>> Create a new email folder called "last year" and dump all old email
>into
>> it. Set outgoing autoreply to "I'm sorry but all the email from prior
>to
>> today was deleted by court order. Unless I have your address on an
>approved
>> sender's list this will be forwarded to the FBI, NSA, and Microsoft
>for
>> analysis". Delete all folders named "last year" because it has a
>space in
>> the name.
>> >
>> >How do you find these things later?
>>
>> Why would I even want to? New year. New ways to lose things things.
>Last
>> year was a total wash anyway so a complete failure of all hard drives
>and
>> backups actually sounds plausible now. Purge like it's a new eating
>> disorder diagnosis! Digital vomitus. It's better than the 'rona and
>you can
>> always claim "fog brain made me do it".
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