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Only 7 Percent of E-Mails Are Worth Reading
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Thu, 07/10/2008 - 20:23
Only 7 Percent of E-Mails Are Worth Reading
By MaryEllen Tribby
I just returned from my family vacation. We rented a beautiful beach house on the ocean side of Fire Island, New York. It was wonderful. No cars are permitted on the island; everyone bikes to and from town. We played tennis daily and built sandcastles on the beach. And believe or not, for the first time in my career, I left my laptop at home. (I call it my unplugged vacation.)
Knowing I was going to be out of touch for a while, I prepared everything I needed ahead of time. That included setting up the following autoresponder message for all the e-mails I would be receiving while I was gone:
Hello and thank you for your e-mail.
I will be out of the office from June 12th - 24th. Due to the high volume of e-mails I receive, I will delete all e-mails sent during this time period. If your e-mail still requires attention after the 24th, please resend it.
If you need immediate attention, please contact another member of the ETR team.
Cheers,
ME
Well, while I was away I received 979 e-mails. Only 68 were re-sent after my return, and three had been forwarded to my assistant. That is barely over 7 percent of my e-mails that really needed attention.
Next time you go away on vacation, don't waste your time upon your return sorting through e-mails that have either been taken care of or really did not require your attention to begin with. Set up an autoresponder like mine and delete 'em all. Then you can jump back in by taking care of tasks that actually make you money - right when you are fresh and raring to go!
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thanks god for spam filter
my email is mainly for work and communicating with frens
the rest are the usual newsletters and forwarded jokes emails
actually i dun relli mind spams as i like to see what ppl spam other ppl about....
some information quite useful actually
Lucky i'm using gmail which has the best email spam filter in the market as quoted in Digital Times.
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i look through all the email headings...if they are interesting, then i will take a look...including the spam mails...
Last time (when I was new to emails & spam which was v. long ago) I was soooo stupid as to try "unsubscribing" to each & every one of these spam emails, thinking that the sender will never contact me again. I was wondering why, despite my time & effort taken to follow their unsubscribe options, the spam just.kept.on.coming. It wasn't long when I finally realised that if one ever responds to spam, its GOOD for those spammers, it means your email add is active & there's an person (aka me) sitting at the other end reading their mail. Omigod....I felt so dumb then.
I chose the next best option, which is to change email add completely. Now, I actually have an email addy dedicated esp to SPAM, or potential spammers. Means that, whenever I fill up lucky draw forms or give my email addy to any 3rd party (beside work) I will give them this one. True enough, the spam/EDMS/direct mails come straight on to flood that mailbox. N I choose whether to read or not e.g. some bank promos quite good so I will read.
My email adds:
Personal x 3
Work x 3
Spam x 1
I dare agree with the topic header that only 7% or less, is worth reading haha~
i recently signed up ymail
i registered 2 accounts somemore
but haben got around to publicising it to frens or whoever