Comments on: Simple Time Saving Tip #62 – Stop Self Inflicted Junk Email

By: Sid Savara

Sid Savara — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:43:43 +0000

Hey Jason,

You know, you're right - when I wrote the blog post I wrote it from the
perspective of my assumptions for why we act the way we do. You bring up a
good point though - we will stay subscribed to some store's newsletter for
years, because we don't want to miss a sale, even though we haven't
purchased anything from any of the newsletters they have been sending for
months.

By: Sid Savara

Sid Savara — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:43:43 +0000

By: Jason Christensen

Jason Christensen — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:44:40 +0000

I don't know if it is laziness all the time. Sometimes I think people have a hard time letting go, they think they are going to "miss" something if they unsubscribe. Also, I have written several blog posts on cleaning up email and creating efficiencies myself, feel free to check them out: http://su.pr/8w3tcn

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By: SidSavara

SidSavara — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:42:07 +0000

Hi Richard,

Thanks for the comment! That book wouldn't be the Four-Hour Work Week by any chance would it? =)

I think another interesting think I read was the concept of "email bankruptcy." You delete everything, mass email everyone who emailed you and say sorry - I couldn't deal with it. I'm declaring email bankruptcy. If it was important, please resend it.

I've never done it, but I will admit to "marking all as read" when I'm reading blogs in Google Reader =)

By: SidSavara

SidSavara — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:40:27 +0000

Hi,

I'm on 2.6.2. I had been creating thumbnails manually for a while – the plugin is way better =)