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E-Mail Addiction 12-Steps Stumbles

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the big-shock-here dept.

netbuzz writes "Talk about offering an alcoholic a drink? No. 2 of 12-step program for e-mail addiction: "Commit to keeping your inbox empty." ... Reuters is reporting today on this program from an executive coach. Here are 11 other reasons why it won't work." I know what the bottom of my inbox looks like, I just only get to see it for a few minutes a year.

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  1. Re:Email is for instant-messaging. by danpsmith · · Score: 1, Funny

    I've been described as the guy who "turns email into an instant-messaging system." I just wish Slashdot comment reply notification emails were sent out as they happened, instead of in batches every five minutes.

    That's funny, I'm known as the guy who turns an instant-messaging system into snail mail because I forget to put up an away message and it confuses people.

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  2. Re:Email is for instant-messaging. by aallmighty · · Score: 2, Funny

    I've been described as the guy who "turns email into an instant-messaging system." I just wish Slashdot comment reply notification emails were sent out as they happened, instead of in batches every five minutes.

    That's funny, I'm known as the guy who turns an instant-messaging system into snail mail because I forget to put up an away message and it confuses people. I actually do both of those things... never realized how ridiculous I am until just now...
  3. I tried GTD... by 192939495969798999 · · Score: 2, Funny

    It takes me 3 minutes to figure out if something will take me less than 2 minutes to do, so I get a deadlock. The only real solution is writing post-its on a whiteboard.

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    1. Re:I tried GTD... by Trails · · Score: 4, Funny

      Post it's kill trees. To be more environmentally friendly, maybe you should send yourself an email about it.

  4. and remember... by physicsboy500 · · Score: 2, Funny

    There really isn't a king in Nigeria that left his fortune to you, so just don't bother.

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  5. My last employer insisted on this by jimicus · · Score: 4, Funny

    We had a clear desk policy which was extended to email - not by force, but I was asked to get my inbox down to nothing.

    Solution: Set up a folder called "Not Inbox" and a rule to automatically push all incoming email to that.

    I was able to honestly say that my inbox was completely empty.

    1. Re:My last employer insisted on this by rodney+dill · · Score: 4, Funny

      Better yet, label your new INBOX as 'EMPTY'
      Then you can always say, my inbox is EMPTY.

      (probably depends on what the meaning of is is)

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  6. But if I don't check my email constantly by antifoidulus · · Score: 4, Funny

    I might miss out on all these job offers I am getting from all over the world. All I have to do is cash checks and I get 10% of the profits, and I only had to give them my contact info, SSN, account numbers and passwords. What suckers!

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  7. Wrong addiction by thc69 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Forget email...what about a 12 step program for my wife's World of Warcrack addiction?

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    1. Re:Wrong addiction by prelelat · · Score: 4, Funny

      phone your provider and tell them to cut off you internet connection. Don't tell her. When it gets cut off freak out and phone the provider, have a big fight and at the end say "No way don't even bother I'm not dealing with you again" and then hang up. Tell your wife that she will have to go without internet until you are able to find a company that isn't a bunch of assholes. When she leaves to go to the internet cafe down the street call the lock smith, and change the locks. When she gets back make her cancle her WOW subscription and hand over her credit cards. You might have to wait her out on that one but it should work.

  8. Re: Single Subject per Message by TaoPhoenix · · Score: 3, Funny

    I guess you haven't met practitioners of the SuperFootnote. The trick is they only have 1 subject in the header, but as last-minute item tacked on below.

    P.S. Did you see the Vista article in the Register a couple threads below this?

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  9. I don't have an inbox by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I just read the packets as they come in on port 25.