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April 6th, 2008

Spam be gone!

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I don’t know what happened.  I thought I had it under control.
For over a month now, I’ve been relatively email spam-free.  I only got roughly 1 or 2 spam messages in my inbox per week.
The last two days were different.  When I woke up the other morning, I had over 150 messages.  That’s rare in […]

By Celine -- 0 comments

March 27th, 2008

Taming Email Overload, The Home Biz Notes Way (plus notes on dealing with spam)

If you’re tired of me going on about my own email habits, go over to Home Biz Notes and watch Yvonne Russell do it.
Yvonne mentions in the post that she has a spam problem. Here are some suggestions for those who are encountering the same thing (I’d have to say this probably includes almost […]

By Celine -- 6 comments

March 6th, 2008

How I Freed Myself from Mountains of Email Part 2

This is part 2 of “How I Freed Myself from Mountains of Email“.
After killing off spam and miscellaneous notifications, I did a few more things that are helping me get less email everyday.
Modified Email Rules and Alerts. Incoming mail is now organized based on criteria I set such as the sender (is it a client? […]

By Celine -- 6 comments

March 6th, 2008

How I Freed Myself from Mountains of Email Part 1

Image by Lusi, taken from stock.xchng

“One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There’s always more than you can cope with.” - Marshall McLuhan
Too much email can cause insanity. If you think information overload is restricted to your email server and client, […]

By Celine -- 13 comments