Reading his rant, I just couldn't understand why he wouldn't simply fire up the terminal and issue a quick 'sudo rm -rf /path/to/mail/*' command. Deleting huge

Reading his rant, I just couldn't understand why he wouldn't simply fire up the terminal and issue a quick 'sudo rm -rf /path/to/mail/*' command. Deleting huge numbers of recently used files with the trash has always been hit-or-miss. This is Tim O'Reilly we're talking about here; he should know better.