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Couldn't agree with you more. I get marketing SMS with pictures from my network provider about the new iPhone etc. Its terrible.

qrbLPHiKpiux 7y ago
I gave up and accept this as the normal standard. I just delete it and move on. Also gave up on “inbox 0.” That’s an unattainable goal. Better luck putting my self on the moon.
- 0xffff2 7y ago
  >Also gave up on “inbox 0.” That’s an unattainable goal. As someone who has never had any trouble maintaining inbox 0 I have to ask, why?
  - goatherders 7y ago
    Same. 0 is easy.
  - webninja 7y ago
    34,586 unread emails are too many to click on so I just created a second email for family and friends only and quit checking my primary.
- magashna 7y ago
  I setup a wildcard for my domain and then use promos.Company@mydomain for anything new I sign up for which makes it manageable. Plenty goes to my promotional wildcard, odd things to the wild wildcard (junked), and only important direct emails go to my actual inbox.
- treebornfrog 7y ago
  Inbox 0 really triggers me. Simply put, if you are unable to get to 0 (work related), then you need to take on less. I run a business and get less than 10 emails per day, what is everyone doing that is filling up their inboxes so much?
  - mehrdadn 7y ago
    I have literally 10 emails just from my own Google Calendar reminding me to do things, 6 from HN replies, some from GitHub, some reminders for financial statements, and lots of miscellaneous notifications and mailing list emails... how in the world do you only get 10 emails per day when running a business?
    - dewey 7y ago
      Delegating?
- tomjen3 7y ago
  Whenever I have an issue with inbox 0, it is because I don't have a procedure in place for how to deal with a given email. Stupid marketing emails are the easiest to deal with - the entire required procedure is to archive them. Emails that are complex and require a lot more though, have multiple decisions and/or holders of stakes involved are currently the bane of my existence.
driverdan 7y ago
That's unacceptable. I'd change providers.
- vkou 7y ago
  To which one? They all do it.
  - dehugger 7y ago
    I've never received an sms marketing message from GoogleFi in 4 years.
    - dwoozle 7y ago
      You may be in two different countries with two different sets of options available.
      - ShorsHammer 7y ago
        You'd be surprised how much this underlying root cause is the source of so many online arguments over who is "right". It's amazing how many people seem to think that the words on the screen are someone just down the road living a life virtually similar to theirs and not sitting in a country where holding hands is illegal in public and people get stoned to death in public. I'm the latter. Hi!

qrbLPHiKpiux 7y ago

I gave up and accept this as the normal standard. I just delete it and move on. Also gave up on “inbox 0.” That’s an unattainable goal. Better luck putting my self on the moon.

0xffff2 7y ago
>Also gave up on “inbox 0.” That’s an unattainable goal. As someone who has never had any trouble maintaining inbox 0 I have to ask, why?
- goatherders 7y ago
  Same. 0 is easy.
- webninja 7y ago
  34,586 unread emails are too many to click on so I just created a second email for family and friends only and quit checking my primary.
magashna 7y ago
I setup a wildcard for my domain and then use promos.Company@mydomain for anything new I sign up for which makes it manageable. Plenty goes to my promotional wildcard, odd things to the wild wildcard (junked), and only important direct emails go to my actual inbox.
treebornfrog 7y ago
Inbox 0 really triggers me. Simply put, if you are unable to get to 0 (work related), then you need to take on less. I run a business and get less than 10 emails per day, what is everyone doing that is filling up their inboxes so much?
- mehrdadn 7y ago
  I have literally 10 emails just from my own Google Calendar reminding me to do things, 6 from HN replies, some from GitHub, some reminders for financial statements, and lots of miscellaneous notifications and mailing list emails... how in the world do you only get 10 emails per day when running a business?
  - dewey 7y ago
    Delegating?
tomjen3 7y ago
Whenever I have an issue with inbox 0, it is because I don't have a procedure in place for how to deal with a given email. Stupid marketing emails are the easiest to deal with - the entire required procedure is to archive them. Emails that are complex and require a lot more though, have multiple decisions and/or holders of stakes involved are currently the bane of my existence.

driverdan 7y ago

That's unacceptable. I'd change providers.

vkou 7y ago
To which one? They all do it.
- dehugger 7y ago
  I've never received an sms marketing message from GoogleFi in 4 years.
  - dwoozle 7y ago
    You may be in two different countries with two different sets of options available.
    - ShorsHammer 7y ago
      You'd be surprised how much this underlying root cause is the source of so many online arguments over who is "right". It's amazing how many people seem to think that the words on the screen are someone just down the road living a life virtually similar to theirs and not sitting in a country where holding hands is illegal in public and people get stoned to death in public. I'm the latter. Hi!