What is Stale Mail?
1.
Email that's so old that by the time you get to it, you might as well just delete it rather than reply.
Steve-O: I got
Spunky: You send it to him?
Steve-O: Naw, by the time I got through the rest of my
inbox , he got it from someone else. My inbox is full of stale mail like that.
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2.
any E-mail that arrives (sometimes again) weeks after it was originally sent, due to very slow servers.
After replying to Karens Email, i realized it arrived today - BUT was sent two weeks ago, Damn Stale Mail!
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Random Words:
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Negatively: an old, decaying thread that refuses to die.
Positively: a threaded conversation that had retained its usefulness so long..
