By the way, I am trying out BlipTV as a place to store the videos, I have uploaded some trials to The World of the Old Testament, of course the interviews with theology students and teachers in Sri Lanka will go on Wordpress, who have just upped the free storage to 3GB, what good timing!
Labels: email, technology
¶ 6:43 AM
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when this happens (often!) I don't just feel "uneasy" I feel pressured and over-worked! But look at the cause. It is not the emails that need a quick simple answer - unless I am very busy they get it. It is not the emails that require deep thought - if they are interesting and stimulating they get it. It is the 50 or so emails every day that I have to move across to storage - unread, or delete. They come from colleagues, often from "authorities". They fall into several recognisable and preventable classes. Such as:I feel uneasy if I have to scroll down to see the entire contents of my inbox
- repeats (why do three different people all feel they need to tell me about the same conference?)
- rubbish from my viewpoint - though important to the sender (it was a conference on a topic that they find inspiring but makes me yawn!)
- overkill (people who think I need to read about everything or I'll feel left out)
- "entertainment" (how many cute cat videos do you really think I want to watch - your humour in my inbox just makes me angry!)
- ... etc...
And that's the sad part, it is mainly colleagues who produce this tidal wave of quasi-Spam. After all if they weren't colleagues, friends or bosses I'd have labeled mail from their addresses Junk and got it redirected to the Spam box long ago.
Even more sadly the culprits will never read this, they are not technically literate enough to subscribe to an RSS feed, that's why they have neither cottoned on that I delete half their mails, nor that less is more when it comes to communication.
<insert image of Munch's "Scream" here>
Labels: email
¶ 12:52 PM
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Yes. My Entourage mail rule set has now become so unwieldy that it is creaking under the weight of daily email. Even having everything pretty much automatically filed as it arrives doesn't always help.
Will expunge your various email addresses from my brain at the next opportunity. :-)
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Stephen G, at
May 4, 2007 10:06 PM
Today's PhD Comic also picks up the email theme.
http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=857
I'd email you the link, but it'd just push you over the edge. :-)
By Stephen G, at
May 4, 2007 10:46 PM
No, your emails are usually either a delight or some light relief. I don't think rules would help unless they were quite specific and clever. Email from x.y@cleverplace.ac.nz > not_read_folder only if subject includes FWD or "conference" and so on...
By Tim, at
May 5, 2007 2:34 PM
Actually it might help just to send any email with FWD in the subject to junk ;-)
By Tim, at
May 5, 2007 2:35 PM
