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Wow, what a gigantic middle finger to people that try to communicate with you. No, deleting your emails programatically because you haven't got around to readin
by cr3ative 12y ago
Wow, what a gigantic middle finger to people that try to communicate with you. No, deleting your emails programatically because you haven't got around to reading them is not a good idea. What about all the no-reply alert emails you'll miss?
As for this: "Government departments and legal entities who communicate only through email can override this" - who decides this? The mail provider? Are you trusting the sender to use that flag responsibly?
- gte910h 12y ago>u. No, deleting your emails programatically because you haven't got around to reading them is not a good idea Archiving them is. You can't have more attention than you have. If people try to get more attention then you can give, you have to triage. Backloads of email are huge piles of stress, and you realistically will almost never get to them Once you've done the emails you've chosen to handle, use a mail client with some form reply to process some things which that's amenable to handling, and archive that which isn't important beyond that. You should ALSO work directly to stop getting CCed on so many things and to communicate with fewer exchanges on more important topics. Get co-workers to not bury the lede, and to get items which need your decision or action to very prominently feature that in the title and first line of the message.