"Ban" is probably not the right action, but I'd definitely like some action taken around my office. I've proposed some form of email tax by recipient. Like, y

"Ban" is probably not the right action, but I'd definitely like some action taken around my office. I've proposed some form of email tax by recipient. Like, you get 100 recipients per day free or something. Slow down and use them well. The time you try to save by being vague and sending out garbage is time that all your recipients spend trying to figure out what you want from them and whether it's more important than whatever else they're doing. I see lots of emails floating around where I have to respond, "Please file a bug and move the conversation there before all of this is lost." Then you get the, "I just got a new cat!" email sent to all with hundreds of, "yay!" responses. I'm glad you got a new cat. I'd be happy to "like" your post on yammer. I'm not happy to get an email every time someone else wants to congratulate you on your cat acquisition. I build up a lot of email debt and every once in a while I manage to get rid of some things. Part of it is tooling (I'd like a sort of "shelf life" for email in my mail reader), but part of it is just how easy it is for humans to do the one thing that amplifies into a time sink for everyone else.