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Folders vs. Tags For Shared Email Accounts?
binarybum writes "I run a student organization with a 10-member 'board of directors.' We hardly ever all have time to attend meetings and a large part of how we interact with the student body is through email. We have a shared email account (accessible by the 10 of us on the board) right now that is typically accessed through an outlook web-access portal. We've been attempting to keep things organized in the account through a complex collection of folders that have been tacked on ad libum. It's turned into a complete mess. I have the onerous task of restructuring the folder system in hopes of achieving sustainable organization, but I'm wondering if I should just switch us over to a tagging system — perhaps Gmail. Has anyone used tags for a multi-user account successfully or does it end up being just as messy?"
So every time I have a petty little problem that I could easily solve on my own with a bit of research and some time spent finding what works for me and doesn't work for me, do I get to troll slashdot with it? Seriously. Do you REALLY need a "community effort" to figure out how to sort your e-mail? It's not like this is some special, unheard-of, unique problem that no one has ever encountered and solved before.
... wait for it ... many different answers. Such is the nature of a problem that does not have One Correct Solution. Life has many such problems.
... I forgot how adults these days are so tender and so easily offended that they think they have a right to never read or hear anything they dislike. Meanwhile, I doubt anyone is going to give a real answer to why you can't handle this yourself, because there is no good reason for that.
From idiots who wait on hold on technical support lines to ask questions that are documented in the manual, the help file, the README file, the Web site, and the FAQ (so that people who really do need a technician get to wait), to people who have no creative capacity and cannot solve their own mundane problems, I really wonder what the hell is wrong with people.
When you "Ask Slashdot" a very open-ended question like this, you're going to get many different answers. If you show some initiative and Google it, you're going to get
So what did you gain from making a "gee everybody let's come together" big deal out of it, exactly, that you could not have done on your own? Why must you be so helpless that you can't deal with this unassisted? Don't you understand that this lack of self-sufficiency is a handicap that, unlike most handicaps, you can choose whether you have it?
This will get modded down because, OHMYGOSH it might OFFEND someone! Oh Noes, what will we do
HAW! HAW! You misspelled "lookout."
"National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law
Join the club of big boys and girls and actually show up for your meetings. Otherwise make way for people who actually have time to devote to your organization. Obviously you do not have proper dedication to the group.
What could possibly hurt the security of the American people more than giving our own government the ability to hide its