{"id":46,"date":"2005-09-18T21:24:56","date_gmt":"2005-09-19T02:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/einiverse.eingang.org\/blogs\/ein2\/2005\/09\/18\/inbox-insanity\/"},"modified":"2005-09-18T21:24:56","modified_gmt":"2005-09-19T02:24:56","slug":"inbox-insanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/einiverse.eingang.org\/ein2\/2005\/09\/18\/inbox-insanity\/","title":{"rendered":"[Inbox Insanity]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although I&#8217;ve bene quite successful for years at keeping my inbox to fewer than 20 messages at any one time, I have to confess I&#8217;ve been having a lot of trouble with this, especially in the last few months.  Caught up in an endless loop of going from one crisis to another, I just haven&#8217;t seemed to have much time to sit down and catch my breath, never mind keep my inbox at a manageagable level and the effects are sadly showing in missed deadlines.<br \/>\nMore than once I&#8217;ve had 100+ messages pending in my inbox.  Even today, as I type, I have 64 messages waiting for me to do something with them, whether that&#8217;s &#8220;Junk&#8221; it, file it, or deal with it and file it.  Why should this be so hard, you ask?  I do receive more mail than the average person and definitely more spam than the average person as a result of holding down multiple roles (technical support, domain registrar, Ph.D. student, university lecturer, friend, technology advisor).   According to Eudora, I receive 12, 145 messages on average per month, of which  about 74% is spam.  Of that 74% that&#8217;s spam, half of that is tagged as spam automatically by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spamcop.net\/\">SpamCop<\/a> and Eudora, but I&#8217;m manually junking the other half.   Hmmm!  That might explain a lot!  I&#8217;m manually junking just under 4500 messages a month!<br \/>\nNevertheless, I still need to reduce the amount of mail sitting in my inbox. Some of it, I notice, is mail I need to habitually do something with, like search report results from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atomz.com\/\">Atomz<\/a>  For these, I&#8217;m going to write some new Eudora rules to auto-file them.  I don&#8217;t actually need to read them&#8212;I just need to be able to get at the information later, if it&#8217;s required.  Done.  That should make a small dent and I should look for others too.  Master the mail!<br \/>\nSee more progress on: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.43things.com\/people\/progress\/Eingang?on=77727\">keep my inbox to only 20 messages<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although I&#8217;ve bene quite successful for years at keeping my inbox to fewer than 20 messages at any one time, I have to confess I&#8217;ve been having a lot of trouble with this, especially in the last few months. Caught up in an endless loop of going from one crisis to another, I just haven&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1ntern3t","category-m1sc"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/einiverse.eingang.org\/ein2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/einiverse.eingang.org\/ein2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/einiverse.eingang.org\/ein2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/einiverse.eingang.org\/ein2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/einiverse.eingang.org\/ein2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/einiverse.eingang.org\/ein2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/einiverse.eingang.org\/ein2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/einiverse.eingang.org\/ein2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/einiverse.eingang.org\/ein2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}