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Louis Gray — Sun, 11 May 2008 21:49:44 -0000

So far, thanks to being small, I'm not overwhelmed by e-mail, as long as I get it in timely chunks.

I've been using .Mac e-mail for a long time, and haven't fully migrated to GMail or anything else. Maybe some day, but it'd take some time to make the change.

What e-mail rules do you use? By sender and topics? I know they're there, but haven't set them up yet.

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Chloe — Sun, 11 May 2008 21:22:09 -0000

I recommend gafana.com. It uses captchas to only allow humans into your inbox. I'm too busy to read computer generated messages.

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Duncan — Sun, 11 May 2008 20:59:28 -0000

Simple solution: rules. You've got the folders, now auto-file the emails. I do it with absolutely everything now and it makes email management that much easier. Funny to see you using Mac Mail though, I would have thought your mail would be online only as well.

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CyndyA — Sun, 11 May 2008 09:12:08 -0000

See, I'm wondering if popularity doesn't come at a price, and that price is a reduction in some otherwise traditional communication. I still don't have that many, but then again, I don't have eleventy thousand FriendFeed or Twitter subscribers either. I'm still happy to keep it small and more intimate, which I suppose is an oxymoron for anyone using social media.

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Richard Cunningham — Sun, 11 May 2008 07:19:14 -0000

Some of these sites are very bad at telling you in the interface when you have been added as a friend which I think is the main problem.

For instance when I go into Twitter after I have had an email telling me some one has added me - there is no message saying that on the screen. If I look at my list of followers, they are listed in the order the joined twitter and I can't see the date they added me or sort by that, which make locating these people impossible without going back to the emails, which is quite a pain even when you can search since you still have to go into each email to do it.

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smbeebe — Sun, 11 May 2008 04:36:35 -0000

Great post... wow, you're right, the mix is definitely changing!

While I still have a high ratio of real people vs. notification type emails, it is shifting. I am an IT Project Management professional for a web app dev co. with a huge base of folks I work with and network with, thus the high amount of people traffic in my inbox.

However, with my increased use of social media there's been a distinct rise in notification emails from all the usual culprits, e.g. twitter (300 followers), friendfeed (75) , facebook (113), and my biggest culprit - LinkedIn (933 contacts!); plus a slew of PM and Technology related emails, whitepapers, and junk I get everyday. Soon, my inbox will be dominated by more system generated emails. Now, I really love Gmail filters and labels!