[Mailman-Developers] Re: Dates

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 12:20:51AM -0400, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
> >>>>> "JRA" == Jay R Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> writes:
>     JRA> How many mailing lists, how many days?  I can do 2300 in
>     JRA> about a week...
> 
> Oh jeez, that's just the messages I've actually looked at and buried
> thinking "I'll get back to them".  Counts digests as single messages.

I used to have a real problem with the standing size of my inbox.  I've
been managing to keep it down to about 3 to 7 messages, with a little
help from =todo, instead of the 30-50 it sometimes got to before.

> I'm not claiming I'm unique or even that bad in our world of geeks.  I
> had a boss that had 30k+ messages in his inbox, and simply had his
> secretary just delete the whole dang thing.  There's a lot to be said
> for "if it's important enough, they'll keep bugging me". :)

Assuming you see it.

And sometimes, they *won't* keep bugging you cause it's more important
to you than it is to them.

Cheers,
-- jra
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