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Is anyone else out there a victim of e-mail overload? I don’t mean to sound like a commercial for some piece of organizing software but it seems to really be out of hand for me. Maybe its too many e-mail accounts, maybe its not enough time spent on filtering. I don ‘t know, I’ve tried to take steps to manage it and there seems to be too much.
Information overload is a common complaint these days, but it seems to be getting the best of me! In my effort to stay abreast of all things new, it seems like I long for the days when the Compuserve Bulletin Board was the coolest.
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marc klink
August 20th, 2007
at 4:04pm
As I sit here writing this I have a hotmail account with over 700 spam mail messages, and about 200 pieces in the inbox, I have a gmail account, which seems to work pretty well, probably only 50 or so spam messages per week. The Verizon e-mail account gets about 50 to 75 spam messages per week, and the AOL account - don’t ask why, I can’t tell you- gets about 300 spam messages per week. This is amazing since I only gave the e-mail address to 1 person, and he is a personal friend, who doesn’t put me into any offers or anything like that.
I assume that the average AOL user has nothing better to do than read spam, or they are too ignorant to stem the tide from their box. I simply do a quick scan and clear it out once a week. It’s a fairly simple process using Outlook 2003.
UncleJohn
August 22nd, 2007
at 10:29am
Chris what would help is..if you havnt already. Have simply three email accounts, one business, one private that you give to friends, and then one for family only..IE: Your wife, brothers sisters, mom,dad what have you and also for important business’s and sponsors .
It wont help with the spam but least you will have a better idea what to expect from each separate address. Make the one ya give out to all us on the live stream, your business address, which also would probably get most of the spam, the private for friends such as LordKat, and others that are close to you, and the third is already explained.
Then do the fallowing, check private emails first, if theres alot then take care of those that day, especially if there is a important sponsor email.
The next day handle your friends, if theres alot of those then again put the business email off to last, since its probably going to be mostly spam anyway.
Face it, by the time you get the chance to reply to some ones question (which most are probably some one with a computer problem looking for a quick and free solution.) they have already went to a message board or google, or seeked help in the chat room.
The key thing to do is space things out, dont grind yourself like you been doing working all hours of the day and night to try to keep up with everything, I been there did that and burned myself out.
But of course there are those that enjoy working non stop. I am not one to judge, just saying I think you should take it little more easy.