Another side cost of all this recent travel. I got back from my trip to an impossible email inbox. Deleted the whole thing. Months and months of emails. And I turned off instant messaging indefinitely. The signal/noise ratio on IM peaked and it is no longer a useful communication method for me.
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Sounds like a good trip.
By the way, I have an elegant concept-stage solution to that problem… which this margin is too thin to contain.
MB
Chuck out that IM address and start a new one, and only tell people you want to hear from… (I know someone who has done that 4 times already)
Sounds like you need a silent nick.
Or a silent Nik, if you prefer.
Fell’s great, doesn’t it?
None of the Ni(c)k’s are silent
You shouldn’t have posted this Mike, now everyone will just re-send their emails, probably twice as a ‘confirmation’
Michael,
I hope you read my email and the details that are enclosed within it.
I look forward to your response.
Mike – I have an idea. Why don’t you start a website where you post the emails you get (anonymously) and let all your readers give feedback to the author. That would provide entertainment for us and a dose of reality for the misguided senders of the “noise.”
I gave up on IM about 6 months ago and am very glad to have done it. It’s a horrible way to communicate. A 2 minute telephone conversation takes 20 minutes via IM. Factor in the intrusive nature of IM’ing and you have a communication mode that is not only inefficient but also very irritating.
If you pick a new IM handle don’t use maf54 !!!
Dude, you’re cracking! What’s wrong with you?
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