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FIRST: get several email addresses, and direct different sources
of email to each address as a way of sorting the mail

SECOND: for heavy volumes, use a email system which
makes deleting rapid. I have found two which are especially
good at this: Microsoft Outlook and Juno. Although I love
free web-based (e.g., hotmail) email for the ease of access
when traveling, it is much slower for rapidly reading large
volumes.

THIRD: since my largest source of email is my students,
I must train them well, especially how to properly identify
each piece of email with something in the subject line.
I know that I do not have to look at the "quiz" messages
until Friday or the "essays" until Monday, but a
"question" requires an immediate response.


On Wed, 3 Mar 1999 23:13:26 EST "Leslie O'Flahavan" <Ewrite1@AOL.COM>
writes:
>This may seem like an ironic request (given the volume of posts on
>this list)
>but I'd like to invite list members to post their answers to this
>question:
>"How do you cope with e-mail overload?" at
>http://www.ewriteonline.com/postithere/index.html
>
>Share your suggestions. You may just be able to save a fellow
>e-correspondent
>from drowning in messages!
>
>Leslie O'Flahavan
>
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___________________________________________________________________
You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail.
Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html
or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]

I receive about 100 emails a day. I belong to 25 listservs. So far I
have been learning some new skills, and have not become frustrated.

I use the subject line carefully, and delete any messages that are not
really in my interest range right now.

I use my knowledge of the different participants to decide on deleting
any interchange that probably won't interest me.

I don't worry about missing something wonderful. (I may.)

I respond immediately to those I FEEL like responding to.

I print those I want to respond to, but don't have time.

I have had to learn not to print too many, because then I have to decide
what to do with the pieces of paper. I've had to project myself into the
future and ask myself, "What will I do with this message after I have
read it?" When my answer is, "Probably I will want to respond to it," I
fold it a certain way, put it in my purse, to respond to when I am next
on my computer.

I consider myself still learning how to manage emails. I like the
exchange, I like all the listservs. I have accepted that I need not read
every message; I have accepted that I may miss something good; I have
accepted that I could get on overload. It's part of living in the world
today.

Edryce

___________________________________________________________________
You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail.
Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html
or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]

I receive several hundred emails a day, on two computers.

On both computers I use the Eudora email application to filter my messages
into user-defined mailboxes. The program notifies me which mailboxes have
mail. That way my inbox carries only the relatively fewer emails that have
not been assigned a mailbox filter.

Jackie Delienne
Manager, Business Processes
Qualcomm Global Services, Inc.
email: jackied@qualcomm.com

P.S. Eudora Lite is downloadable for free from Qualcomm's Eudora website at
http://www.eudora.com/

I get between 400 and 600 e-mails a week from lst srvrs etc. But like
the optimistic little boy enthusiastically shoveling away the horse
manure, I feel with all that crap; there just has to be a pony somewhere
in the pile.

Edryce Reynolds wrote:
>
> I receive about 100 emails a day. I belong to 25 listservs. So far I
> have been learning some new skills, and have not become frustrated.
>
> I use the subject line carefully, and delete any messages that are not
> really in my interest range right now.
>
> I use my knowledge of the different participants to decide on deleting
> any interchange that probably won't interest me.
>
> I don't worry about missing something wonderful. (I may.)
>
> I respond immediately to those I FEEL like responding to.
>
> I print those I want to respond to, but don't have time.
>
> I have had to learn not to print too many, because then I have to decide
> what to do with the pieces of paper. I've had to project myself into the
> future and ask myself, "What will I do with this message after I have
> read it?" When my answer is, "Probably I will want to respond to it," I
> fold it a certain way, put it in my purse, to respond to when I am next
> on my computer.
>
> I consider myself still learning how to manage emails. I like the
> exchange, I like all the listservs. I have accepted that I need not read
> every message; I have accepted that I may miss something good; I have
> accepted that I could get on overload. It's part of living in the world
> today.
>
> Edryce
>
> ___________________________________________________________________
> You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail.
> Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html
> or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]

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So what? I get several thousand a day.
That is no joke.

It's called management. ;^}
So manage... or don't subscribe.
Nobody put a gun to my head did they you?

> I get between 400 and 600 e-mails a week from lst srvrs etc. But like
> the optimistic little boy enthusiastically shoveling away the horse
> manure, I feel with all that crap; there just has to be a pony somewhere
> in the pile.

It's called speed reading and sorting
abilities. As with any form of data coming your
way... be it visual, aural, otherwise... one
must manage or choose not to sort into usable
information.

Read this:

http://www.concentric.net/~awolinsk/list/

It is the "classic" Life Cycle of the all mailinglists w/ pix.

Enjoy!

--
P.A. Gantt, Computer Science Technology Instructor
Electronic Media Design and Support Homepage
http://user.icx.net/~pgantt/
mailto:pagantt@technologist.com?Subject=etech
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