Comments on: The mail client of your dreams http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/10/24/the-mail-client-of-your-dreams/ Tips and add-ons to make Apple Mail / Mail.app even better Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:23:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » MailTags: Irresistable force meets immovable object http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/10/24/the-mail-client-of-your-dreams/comment-page-1/#comment-31350 Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » MailTags: Irresistable force meets immovable object Tue, 31 Oct 2006 12:05:24 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/10/24/the-mail-client-of-your-dreams/#comment-31350 [...] Remember Allison Randal and her overflowing inbox? [...] [...] Remember Allison Randal and her overflowing inbox? [...]

]]> By: Tim http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/10/24/the-mail-client-of-your-dreams/comment-page-1/#comment-29946 Tim Tue, 24 Oct 2006 22:58:21 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/10/24/the-mail-client-of-your-dreams/#comment-29946 Alan wrote: <blockquote>I am blessed to work for an organization whose chief IT officer has to approve personally every to-all message, which means that I get almost no such messages, and that alone makes my mailbox infinitely easier to manage.</blockquote> That sounds like a very clever system! I am reminded of a comment by Tim Berners-Lee (I think) that the Internet hasn't made us smarter (as some people think). All it has done is make more information available to people. It hasn't taught them how to use it more wisely or manage it more efficiently. Alan wrote:

I am blessed to work for an organization whose chief IT officer has to approve personally every to-all message, which means that I get almost no such messages, and that alone makes my mailbox infinitely easier to manage.

That sounds like a very clever system!

I am reminded of a comment by Tim Berners-Lee (I think) that the Internet hasn’t made us smarter (as some people think).

All it has done is make more information available to people. It hasn’t taught them how to use it more wisely or manage it more efficiently.

]]> By: Alan Jacobs http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/10/24/the-mail-client-of-your-dreams/comment-page-1/#comment-29826 Alan Jacobs Tue, 24 Oct 2006 14:34:53 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/10/24/the-mail-client-of-your-dreams/#comment-29826 Some of what Allison is describing is not an email problem, it's a corporate culture problem. No one can manage, in any meaningful way, the amount of email that Allison gets, even with the mail client of their dreams. If she herself really has to look at and respond to, or at least know the contents of, that many emails, then she needs assistants -- her job load is heavier than it should be. And here's the more universal problem: companies that don't place restrictions on the to-all mail. Maybe 10% of the people in every organization think that every message they write has to be copied to the entire organization, either because they think they're that important or because they're trying to cover their asses. Or because they want to sell their car or advertise their garage sale. I am blessed to work for an organization whose chief IT officer has to approve personally every to-all message, which means that I get almost no such messages, and that alone makes my mailbox infinitely easier to manage. So, at least sometimes, what needs to be addressed is not the technical capabilities of email clients but rather the bad email usage habits of human beings. Some of what Allison is describing is not an email problem, it’s a corporate culture problem. No one can manage, in any meaningful way, the amount of email that Allison gets, even with the mail client of their dreams. If she herself really has to look at and respond to, or at least know the contents of, that many emails, then she needs assistants — her job load is heavier than it should be. And here’s the more universal problem: companies that don’t place restrictions on the to-all mail. Maybe 10% of the people in every organization think that every message they write has to be copied to the entire organization, either because they think they’re that important or because they’re trying to cover their asses. Or because they want to sell their car or advertise their garage sale. I am blessed to work for an organization whose chief IT officer has to approve personally every to-all message, which means that I get almost no such messages, and that alone makes my mailbox infinitely easier to manage. So, at least sometimes, what needs to be addressed is not the technical capabilities of email clients but rather the bad email usage habits of human beings.

]]> By: Tim http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/10/24/the-mail-client-of-your-dreams/comment-page-1/#comment-29806 Tim Tue, 24 Oct 2006 12:08:00 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/10/24/the-mail-client-of-your-dreams/#comment-29806 Yes, I did. That was more or less the point of the post :) Thanks for letting me know. Yes, I did. That was more or less the point of the post :)

Thanks for letting me know.

]]> By: John Crosby http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/10/24/the-mail-client-of-your-dreams/comment-page-1/#comment-29804 John Crosby Tue, 24 Oct 2006 11:57:53 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/10/24/the-mail-client-of-your-dreams/#comment-29804 Do you plan to link to Allison's article? Do you plan to link to Allison’s article?

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