Asset Servers and Too Many Inventory Items?

I have seen on a few forum and blog threads the idea mentioned that people might have too much inventory and that it causes the asset servers to have issues. I'm sure many of us have thousands of items in our inventories. I gathered about 5000-7000 at Yandi's junkyard in one or two visits. A large portion of it is junk that I don't really need. Would it be helpful for us residents to delete the crap we rarely use from our inventories? Would this help to alleviate some of the asset server issues? I would bet that many of us would be willing to do this if it would help keep LL from having to raise rates or charge taxes and/or if it would help lower lag. If this would help, then why not ask. It doesn't take long to destroy things, not nearly as long as it takes to craete them. Maybe you could provide a place to keep one copy of anything free that people might want to donate to the masses. Maybe even make it an option in the general GUI "Search for freebie". You could regulate the propogation of some items by just taking them out of the freebies if they caused problems. Lindens, let us know if this will help. Some of us are willing to help to make this SL a better place.

That's a generous offer Jam I know that some people are quite attached to their "junk"...I know I have some sentimental trash in my inventory. It's wise to do spring (summer, fall, winter) cleaning of your inventory, but I don't expect we'd see significant improvement considering the database issues we're currently experiencing. It makes more sense to hunt down and resolve the issues causing the problems rather than ask people to throw away their things. In the future we might consider ways to encourage people to maintain smaller inventories should it be determined a major source of inworld woe.