Every year, around the first of the year, I make an archive folder in my emailer and move everything from the previous year to a folder named for that year… In other words I just made a folder named ‘2004’ and moved everything from last year into it.
It took a while this year, I set a record.
With very little spam, I still ended the year with 21,214 UNOPENED pieces of mail.
So, if you wonder why sometimes I don’t notice something in the comments, now you know.
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I average about 150-175 emails a day in my job.
On the plus side, I used to spend 4-5 hours a day on the phone, but that’s down to maybe 30 minutes now. Not a bad trade IMO.
You guys are pikers. I have to produce output from as many as 20 a day. That means taking them as input and producing a page or 2 of complex DDL to run on computer systems.
Some of it is cookbook, some is not.
Another 30-40 e-mails a day just need to be read and/or discarded.
Soooo…you’ll be going back to read those unopened non-spam emails or would you prefer we all just resend them so they’ll be in your current 2005 inbox?
/sarcasm
WOW, Paul! Are these all wizbang-related incoming e-mails (or other work)? Wonder how many e-mails Drudge gets. Soon you’ll need a secretary or 10!
Oy. And I thought my 100 unopened and 2,800 piece inbox was bad…
I can’t leave anything in my inbox once I’ve seen it. If it’s spam I chuck it right away (I can tell without opening the @#$! things); if after reading a non-spam I determine it doesn’t require a reply or need to be saved I chuck it.
If I reply and the original message doesn’t need to be saved (such as, if I included the whole thing in my reply) I chuck it; sent messages are saved automatically.
And then I empty the trash folder. And when “Sent” and “Saved” get to a certain point, I go through and re-evaluate the saved and chuck what I can, and chuck most of the sent. The rest I archive.
If only I were as diligent about emptying my real wastebaskets…
I probably get that number of penis enlargement and Nigerian spam ads – eventually, I’m going to stop putting my email address on all these internet sites – not this one, of course.
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