Can I turn off automatic chat saving in Messages?

I have never liked this feature and I think it's simply a waste of space on my hard drive.  Time Machine likes to keep backing up as well.

I dont think you can, I also dont like this feature,  I just open the folder (home)>Documents> ichats then delete the content.  Not ideal I know, but for the moment its a workaround..

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