The time has come. (Insert “Rocky Horror” audience line here.) With an 18 gigabyte drive devoted solely to storing email, you’d think that a couple hundred Groupwise accounts could live comfortably, right?

Wrong.

No matter what or how I tell them, these people never… ever… delete anything. Ever. So today I take a drastic step: a purge of all email older than the first of this year. This time I received permission from the General Manager, so if anyone complains I can shrug my shoulders and say “Jack told me to.” It’s nice to have the bigwigs on your side for a change, wouldn’t you agree?

This process is likely to take all day, if not part of tomorrow. Good thing I didn’t have anything exciting planned.