ATTENTION e-mail programmers!

Ok, I've got a pet peeve about e-mail that I've had since the first days of attachments.

Why on earth doesn't every piece of e-mail software (web based especially) allow your to separate messages from attachments??!!

I mean come on, I very often want to keep the content of an e-mail, but once I've downloaded the attachment, I don't want it any more. It just clutters up my mail-box.

You'd think the stupid web mail providers would get this. I mean heck, they just keep upping the quota's (gmail is like a GB now) and or charging more for bigger quota's.

Why?

Wanna bet that if they let people delete just the attachments and keep the message it was attached to that in-boxes worldwide would shrink?


While I'm on the subject, I'd sure like a way to filter all the crap attached to the e-e-mail sent by the dummies still using Outlook.
Leave it to Microsoft to leave Outlook an unstable pile of security holes after umpteen revisions, but go and add worthless crap like e-mail themes and backgrounds.
I just 'love' getting a 400k message from some schmuck using Outlook that only contains 10 words, but has a flower border, a flashing signature and an attached midi file playing some crap the sender would smack you for playing at their party.

Gahh... Get a clue.