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Hoarders vs. Deleters- What Your Inbox Says

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the it's-all-so-simple-sometimes dept.

BlueCup writes "You are your inbox. Take a clear-eyed look at how you answer or file each email. Notice what you choose to keep or delete. Consider your anxiety when your inbox is jammed with unanswered messages. The makeup and tidiness of your inbox is a reflection of your habits, your mental health and, yes, even the way Mom and Dad raised you." I always knew my obsessive packratting said something important about me as a human being.

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  1. Re:gmail solved my clutter by SURsys · · Score: 5, Informative

    There's absolutely nothing imaginary about deleting emails being criminal. This was a "finance executive" she advised to delete NINE THOUSAND emails. I work for a global insurance company that also has a huge financial branch. Along with certain sides of the insurance aspect of the company, the financial branch is also restricted by FEDERAL LAW that certain correspondence must be kept and archived (emails, phone conversations, all sorts of paperwork, etc etc etc). So, depending on what he deals in, it very well may be criminal to delete some of those nine thousand emails.