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My team has a group address, and it's the recipient of so many automated emails, the only way to make my email manageable was to make an Outlook(sigh) rule that deletes email sent to the group address after only 24 hours. Otherwise, I have to manually delete hundreds of thousands of emails every couple days, to prevent my mailbox getting locked.
I vastly prefer slack as well. -
Sounds like me. I don't use Slack but we get 1000s of emails a week. I only read the one's that are sent directly to me.
No idea who takes care of the rest but only other way too get me to look at something is if I get messaged or boss explicitly fws and asks me to look at it... Usually comes with a message.
It changed my life, really. 😁
Email clients, please DO NOT TRIM THE TITLE !
Nice mailing service you got there...
I haven't checked my work email in a month or two.
We use slack, so every time someone needs me they just message me there or text me. It works nicely. I also dislike email in general.
Anyway: I looked at my inbox this morning, and again just now. I've gotten just over 900 emails today.
Why?
Tons of useless alerts on a shoddy as hell codebase. As an example: Every time a coworker uses a tool or lookup with a sub-par query, it ties up the single shared database long enough to generate response time alerts.
As a better example, there are many many many informational alerts that intentionally begin with "500 Internal" specifically to trigger an email alert. Why? I guess they were useful at some point?
There's just so much to fix...
And I guess I don't care enough.
On the bright side: this gives me a great reason to ignore my email!
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