Comments on: Dealing with E-Mail Hell

By: Cottontimer

Cottontimer — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 10:25:10 +0000

qadira: Filters are totally the way to go. I just made an “action needed” folder too to make sure I respond to everything that needs it.

By: qadira

qadira — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 02:36:41 +0000

I love my gmail account because of the filters and labels. I liked my Pegasus mail reader until it quit working properly, and we never could get it to reinstall right. :/ Husband recently made the switch from Eudora to Thunderbird, and is still making peace with it. heh.

If I ever have 2 hours worth of email daily, I hope I have a paid assistant too. or house elves

By: Cottontimer

Cottontimer — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 14:56:32 +0000

kchew: I still love e-mail despite the trouble it’s caused.

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By: kchew

kchew — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 23:00:51 +0000

I definitely spend too much time checking email (and on my Powerbook, in general). I do too always get that frisson on seeing that my inbox has a message–something about being connected means a lot to me.

It’s more immediate than “snail letters” certainly; I wouldn’t have kept up with all sorts of people without it. Or met many, like yourself, and had an e-chat.

By: Cottontimer

Cottontimer — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 06:24:23 +0000

ruth: We socialize quite a bit by e-mail so it’s nice to know you’d miss it if we didn’t.

Mona: Crapberry – I love it! I may have to buy one from you someday. hehe

By: Mona

Mona — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 05:34:06 +0000

Personally, I call that device crapberry. Since it’s for work more than keeping up with friends, it’d inevitably spoil a dinner, a show.. essentially no life thereafter.
Most of my clients tells me not to sell that to their bosses *evil grin*

By: ruth

ruth — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 15:16:11 +0000

while i start to recognize what a big distraction email is becoming to me, i still look forward to receiving them, especially those that are actually written by real people, not the automatically generated stuff. i also use email to socialize, to chat, and simply keep in touch with friends and family, so a big chunk of my emails are “irrelevant”, but… so what? i’d be horrified not to recent such emails!