Inbox under control

[jbailey]

I have my email inbox finally under control. I started with 3000-odd messages in my Inbox a few weeks ago, and decided that I wanted to get my Inbox truly down to messages I hadn't replied to but intended to. I had a few still from when we moved a year ago, and I got to the last of those today - and found out that she's on LJ as well (Hi, Peggy!)

After this, the only one that's not from sometime in the last past week is a message about HPPA ELF ABI documents and LSB.

With some luck I'll be able to keep it this way!

Comments

[compwizrd.livejournal.com]

I get about 1500 a day give or take, luckily it mostly goes to a separate account.. it's painful when i forget about that account for a week or two.

[jbailey.livejournal.com]

I was at that point, and decided that I needed to cut it down to messages I was actually going to care about. So I'm now on a few mailing lists that I actually read, or that I have to be on to post occasionally. I'm going through and eliminating email addresses that I don't use to kill a bunch of the spam coming in, and I've finally knocked the email account down to 6 or 7 messages in the Inbox that I need to deal with. I think I'm down to 300 or 400 messages a day, over half of which I now actually read, and a bunch of the rest is spam that makes it through the filters. A next step will be to tweak those.

I have this particular problem that I hate using a mail reader for mailing lists - I wish that those all nicely came into a news reader that was threaded, had history, and had a decent search.

Sadly, I'm also missing a decent news reader, which is why I don't just use gmane for everything. =)