In loving, living memory, John Melançon 1928 – 2007
Days after returning from India, my work e-mail inbox is down to just 84 undealt with e-mails. Which is pretty good since it was just under 300 when I went to India.
I realize, however, that the appearance of prospective manageability of my communications is because people have given up on me. If I start being responsive and replying right away, people will write more.
The key to balancing the inbox, I guess, is to respond quickly but write very discouraging things.