Post by robingms on Jul 4, 2020 4:35:53 GMT -8
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This is a general point about your data retention policy and its affect on the environment and has nothing to do with My Forum.
While keeping every post ever made has its uses.
It is a policy that has a serious environmental impact.
Almost all domains have the same policy, so this is not a criticism of you but of the generally accepted wisdom. And is purely an opinion of one customer.
This means there are thousands of emails to billions of people on tens of thousands of servers that are always turned on so we can always access them. Many of those emails have been sent to hundreds if not thousands or millions of people. Which multiplies that figure to an even larger number.
Just to give you a scale of the problem last year I automatically deleted over a million emails addressed specifically to me and not just to the company I work for. That was one incident of unchecked automatic alerts. Automatic alerts have there uses but when unchecked by humans can get seriously out of hand. But there are millions of companies and millions of people delivering quadrillions of emails every day. Many un read and automatically deleted on arrival. They are called spam. Even legitimate emails is in certainly in the billions and probably in the trillions daily.
Globally, we are already currently burning Mega-tonnes of coal just keeping emails and posts on blogs on line for most of those sites this retention policy is for all the time.
I would kindly suggest that at some point in the not too distant future you revisit your policy to keep every post ever sent for all times
available online for perusing at any time of day or night.
Please work out what is a sensible retention period or what period of inactivity is a sensible limit and either start automatically deleting posts if they can be deleted or move posts that are effectively archives to storage that is not permanently on.
For example insisting that old archives are stored on NUC, Mini PC with only SSD storage, where high performance is not an issue but power consumption is.
Your retention policy is obviously your policy to chose, but as a customer that is my opinion of one way you might improve it and help in a small way to get all of us to carbon negative environment faster.
This is a general point about your data retention policy and its affect on the environment and has nothing to do with My Forum.
While keeping every post ever made has its uses.
It is a policy that has a serious environmental impact.
Almost all domains have the same policy, so this is not a criticism of you but of the generally accepted wisdom. And is purely an opinion of one customer.
This means there are thousands of emails to billions of people on tens of thousands of servers that are always turned on so we can always access them. Many of those emails have been sent to hundreds if not thousands or millions of people. Which multiplies that figure to an even larger number.
Just to give you a scale of the problem last year I automatically deleted over a million emails addressed specifically to me and not just to the company I work for. That was one incident of unchecked automatic alerts. Automatic alerts have there uses but when unchecked by humans can get seriously out of hand. But there are millions of companies and millions of people delivering quadrillions of emails every day. Many un read and automatically deleted on arrival. They are called spam. Even legitimate emails is in certainly in the billions and probably in the trillions daily.
Globally, we are already currently burning Mega-tonnes of coal just keeping emails and posts on blogs on line for most of those sites this retention policy is for all the time.
I would kindly suggest that at some point in the not too distant future you revisit your policy to keep every post ever sent for all times
available online for perusing at any time of day or night.
Please work out what is a sensible retention period or what period of inactivity is a sensible limit and either start automatically deleting posts if they can be deleted or move posts that are effectively archives to storage that is not permanently on.
For example insisting that old archives are stored on NUC, Mini PC with only SSD storage, where high performance is not an issue but power consumption is.
Your retention policy is obviously your policy to chose, but as a customer that is my opinion of one way you might improve it and help in a small way to get all of us to carbon negative environment faster.
