I definitely don't take a minute per email. Maybe 5-10 seconds on most. Many get deleted without being read because it's from someone I don't care about, spam, or the subject tells me I don't care. Things also get sorted by priority and dumped into folders. Anything marked urgent goes to my inbox. Lists get their own folder. HR email goes to the trash. Monitoring and alerts for systems that aren't mine get their own folder, alerts for my own stuff get both in my inbox and forwarded to my pager, etc. I spend *a lot* of time doing email, but it's much less than I could be spending. Jay > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Harris [mailto:PaulHarris at Bigfoot.com] > Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 7:50 PM > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] 50K messages > > > Me! :) If it takes much less than a minute I'd wonder why I > was getting it (I know it's possible to convey useful info in > less than a minute, but possible isn't the same as common). > And this is an average, so some emails take me 10 mins +, > including a reply. > > Cheers, Paul > > From: Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] 50K messages > > On 28 Nov 2001, Paul wrote: > > Not that I doubt you for a moment, but at 1 minute per email, that's > > 16 hours per day of reading emails! When do you actually > DO stuff?! > > :) > > eh, who actually takes a minute per e-mail?? :) > > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. > Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-> linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >