I suppose it's good in that it stops people getting pouty and deleting 40-page threads that others have devoted a lot of time to, contributing quality writing and reasoned debate, or even spectacular abuse.
I didn't think of that. No public spiritedness, some people.
Briefly:
My ancient laptop crashed; I somehow lost all the emails in my Sent Items folder in Outlook Express.
In Windows | Application Data | Identities there's a file in curly brackets. (It's somewhere else in later operating systems, I think - I've got 98SE on this).
A couple of levels inside that is an Outlook Express folder, with all your mail folders as .dbx files.
I had Sent Items.dbx, Sent Items(1).dbx, plus another called Sent Items.dbt
The first two were small files and I threw them away.
The .dbt was huge, so was obviously the original. I renamed it .dbx.
I also deleted the Folders.dbx file. When I went back into OE, all the missing emails had returned.
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