[26208] in resnet
Re: email advice
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Isabelle Graham)
Mon Apr 11 10:30:29 2011
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Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 10:30:01 -0400
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From: Isabelle Graham <graham@american.edu>
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I find if I get things consistently from friends or family members and
asking them to stop (or replying with a link to snopes.com) doesn't have
the desired effect, creating folders with rules redirecting mail from
those users helps. That way you don't have to deal with those messages
interrupting your minute to minute flow and you can still set aside time
to skim that folder (or those folders) for relevant messages.
--
Isabelle Graham
Information Security
American University
On 2011-04-08 21:08, Drago N. Elboni wrote:
> I'm having a problem receiving a lot of stupid email forwards. Especially
> with the baby boomers. I would appreciate any suggestions the listserv has
> to offer, because this problem has become particuarly frustrating for an
> email power user such as myself.
>
> Certain people like to send me email. Great! I'm glad you're thinking of me.
> But I really, really don't like getting chain mail/spam.
>
> It's one thing when it's genuinely funny. One of my cousins sends me stuff
> fairly often, but I actually laugh at it. So it's OK; we have similar senses
> of humor and we will email back and forth entertaining comments about the
> funny. So she knows that I'm cool with her highly amusing forwards.
>
> My grandmother, on the other hand.... Well, we've already had one discussion
> about how getting religious-toned pro-American military everything was a bit
> offensive as a humanist, pacifist and atheist. And she took it quite well,
> and I haven't gotten anything from her in that vein lately. But I still get
> stuff from her and other older family members. And it's so OBNOXIOUS.
>
> I think the biggest issue that we are using email for different things. I am
> an email power user, they are not. They are using it as an occasional
> communication tool that is capable of holding files, pictures, words, and
> ideas. I, on the other hand, am an email power user. I use my work email to
> communicate with hundreds of people on a daily basis. I use my personal
> email to stay abreast of community issues, what's going on in Facebook, what
> my friends are up to, to manage choir business and to inform my friends and
> family as to what's going on in my life. Yes, amusing and funny things make
> their way into both my work and personal email, but for me, email is not an
> optional thing that I log into occasionally. I am in my email inboxes at
> least 10 hours a day. I have three active email accounts, as well as
> specialized email aliases that forward to my personal and work accounts, the
> 20+ email lists that I'm on, or the separate email accounts that forward to
> my main accounts (such as ResNet and choir).
>
> On an average day, I read about 200 emails. I send at least 40, if not more.
> A lot of them are quick responses, that take seconds to compose and send.
> But I am an email power user: I use the keyboard fairly exclusively once I
> start working in Apple Mail, and I type SUPER DUPER FAST. Email is not some
> fluffy thing for me. It is an integral part of my job and responsibilities,
> and when someone sends me crap about The World's Biggest Hug or "RE: Love
> SPell - Pass it ON OR ELSE!!1!" it makes me upset. Because they've now
> stolen 5 seconds of my time. It's my time, dammit. It doesn't matter that it
> was seconds. What matters is that people are not cognizant of me and my
> needs. And that as family and friends, I expect more of them.
>
> So what can I do about receiving all these stupid emails? Should I email
> people back and let them know to stop sending them, or should I just block
> them?
>
> I hope someone can offer some advice, surely I'm not the only one dealing
> with this.
>
> -
>
> Drago N. Elboni
> Service Desk Manager at National Central University
> http://servicedesk.cc.ncu.edu.tw/
>
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