Declaring e-mail bankruptcy - Valleywag Comments

Declaring e-mail bankruptcy

pra — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 03:05:45 PDT

This is truly pathetic. Is giving up the only strategy these people can manage?

I'll deal with their email at 50 cents a message...simply forward them all to me...these VC's can afford to invest in not looking so stupid.

pra

Declaring e-mail bankruptcy

DuckFOO — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:37:35 PDT

Actually, I am giving some serious consideration to giving up email entirely. The people who I know personally are always sending me crap that I don't care about and most of my interactive communications are accomplished via web based forums.

However, I do recognize the need for an email address for ordering products online, so if I do it I will adopt a non-english word as my user name and use plus addressing to easily track spam sources.

I wonder how many people have considered falling off the email grid entirely.

DuckFOO

Declaring e-mail bankruptcy

savedsoul — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:03:53 PDT

These people must be pretty high profile (although, none of the names are familiar). If I worked at my job for 4 hours a week or didn't return 95% of my work related email, I would be out of my professional job. I say if they can't take the hand they were dealt, they shouldn't have gotten involved. They need to buck-up to their digital responsibility or hire someone to do it for them.

I agree that auto responders are not necessary (unless truly unwired and merely for common courtesy) and it says a lot about people that feel the need to use them to keep their livelihood under control.

savedsoul

Declaring e-mail bankruptcy

TC_EmmasDaddy — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:37:36 PDT

I might have considered this, but instead, I use the methods in LifeHacker: the book for managing emails. It has saved at least a few dozen hairs on my forehead in the past year.

TC_EmmasDaddy

Declaring e-mail bankruptcy

katana — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:10:32 PDT

Except for public figures receiving 10,000+ messages a day, I don't see the need for an autoresponder (unless you're on vacation, perhaps).

Someone's autoresponse simply wastes my time.

If I send an e-mail, I'll assume they got it and await their reply. If I don't hear from them in a reasonable amount of time, I'll call.

katana