Effectively managing the torrent of email we receive each day is one of the largest unsolved dilemmas of the web. Rather than replying immediately to emails, many are overwhelmed by the sheer amount of emails in their inbox.
Internet users all over the world have one major problem in common, "Spam." While there doesn't appear to be any silver bullet solution to stopping 100% of the spam being sent to your Inbox, there are still ways to stop the majority of it.
Just when you thought you were finally starting to get on top of the spam epidemic, a new email scourge is clogging inboxes around the country: bacn. Unlike spam, bacn (pronounced "bacon") is solicited email, but that which you do not want to read right now, or even at all.
For more than a decade, the look and feel of e-mail inboxes has remained agonizingly static.
Merlin Mann, a well known productivity guru and creator of the popular 43 folders website talks about Getting Things Done, the importance of getting your inbox to zero, and strategies for dealing with high volume email. Web Site:
When faced with an inbox of 100-400 messages, I usually find myself replying to the messages which are quickest to reply to, rather than which are most important to reply to.
Last month, venture capitalist Fred Wilson drew a lot of attention on the Internet when he declared a 21st century kind of bankruptcy. In a posting on his blog about technology, Wilson announced he was giving up on responding to all the e-mail piled up in his inbox.
Most reasonable people understand the give and take proposition of getting unsollicited flyers in their mailboxes. If any given offering isn't interesting, just toss it to recycling (please, don't sent it to the regular trash).
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When will Bill Gates learn he should keep his wallet open and his mouth shut?
Last week I finally gave up and ditched Apple Mail in favor of using Gmail all the time for both work and personal email. I had been managing my work email via IMAP, but with such a large inbox I was beginning to notice performance issues. It was time to switch.
We have all seen it. The day you log into newsvine after being gone for a week. You look at the conversation tracker, and have a heart attack. My tracker read something like 400 the other day, and now is reading 357.