From: Stewart J. <st...@bo...> - 2007-04-20 14:39:13
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On 4/20/07, Dominic J. Eidson <do...@th...> wrote: > > Proper filtering ought to alleviate the issue of "I get > too-much-not-important-enough email in my inbox" It doesn't for me, and as already discussed that's just a personal preference for some people. > I have a very strong personal preference for mailing lists over forums - > the event-driven vs. busy-wait/poll reasoning. Fair enough, I have a very strong personal preference the other way. Lucky you're in line with the status quo, huh? > I have, at times, dealt with 1k+ messages/day coming to my mail box - I > think it's down to around 200-300 nowadays. It's all about learning how to > efficiently read your email - I can recover from 2.5k+ > haven't-read-email-for-a-week loads in about 30 minutes. /me golf claps. |