[TCP] Textaholic / emailaholics - how do you keep it from taking over?

2007-08-20 Thread Martinek, Carla
-Original Message- From: Melissa Nelson My niece is a textaholic. I have to say I find it a bit annoying because she will check her text messages every other minute when we do something. :) This makes a great transition into another subject, relevant to our jobs. I'm subscribed to

Re: [TCP] Textaholic / emailaholics - how do you keep it from taking over?

2007-08-20 Thread Char James-Tanny
I'm subscribed to multiple lists (applications, dita, stc, tech writing...) and if I were to try and keep up with all of the postings on every list, I'd go absolutely bonkers. So here's the question: What do you do to manage the overflow of electronic messaging so that it doesn't eat up

Re: [TCP] Textaholic / emailaholics - how do you keep it from taking over?

2007-08-20 Thread Bryan Sherman
Gmail is my tool of choice for lists now. The best part is the threaded conversations. When someone posts about why Framemaker is so much better than Word... or Word so much better than Framemaker, I can skip the whole thread. This also comes in handy if three-letter abbreviations like 'DFD' enter

Re: [TCP] Textaholic / emailaholics - how do you keep it from taking over?

2007-08-20 Thread Bill Swallow
So here's the question: What do you do to manage the overflow of electronic messaging so that it doesn't eat up your day and productivity? Those who know me will say this is an understatement... I am connected. ;-) I have four primary e-mail addresses. One's devoted to work, one's devoted to