If you can't handle the heat ..... (well you know)
Ruth H. Axelrod wrote:
>
> Thanks, Fred, for you analysis of the e-mail load. I am struggling
> between struggling through it and signing off, thereby losing some useful
> stuff. I have several other strategies to suggest:
> 1) Carefully consider the "Subject" line--if it says "Teams" and is really
> about teams and I am not interested in team, I can skip over it. However,
> if it is a new subject, I might want to browse.
> 2) Ask ourselves whether what we have to say really contributes
> information.
> 3) Give some thought to articulating messages as briefly as possible--as a
> trained writer, I know that this requires more time for the author.
> Hoping to stay on-line.
> Ruth
>
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> Ruth H. Axelrod, Doctoral Candidate | How come when I want a
> Organizational Behavior and Development | set of hands I get a
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> On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, FRED P. ANDERSON; DEPT. OF MGMT.& MKTG. wrote:
>
> > Today, my weekend e-mail contained 80+ listings from MG-ED-DV.
> > That's a lot to work off. And I have to suspect that there are highly
> > desirable list participants who give up on us, because they can't see
> > enough time coming available to ever let them wade through the incoming
> > flood of MED musings. Here though is a proposal for at least a small
> > improvement.
> > I note in my backlog of 80 e-mails, that about 5% were naught but
> > messages of affirmation (e.g., "I agree with Jim." (Or Meg, or Jean, or
> > ... etc.)). And while it's nice to be appreciated, it would help to cut the
> > clutter (at least by 5%) if such words-of-support went privately to their
> > deserving recipients, rather than being broadcast into the e-mail boxes of
> > several thousand less-than-fascinated list subscribers.
> > I've saved *my 5%, now. Anybody got any gigantic schemes for saving
> > us from the other 95%?
> >
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