How Long Can You Ignore The Little Yellow Envelope?

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picture the scene, you have yr email application open, but minimised. Mail comes in....do you have the impulsive urge to READ IT STRAIGHT AWAY? Or are you strong - can you ignore it for ages and structure yr time effectively like the ergonomically superior being that you are?

how do you react to the new mail? *do* you react, even?

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 09:52 (twenty-two years ago)

i fully appreciate the Microsoft Outlook bias to my question incidentally. Feel free to throw slagging off the OS into the pot if you so wish.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 09:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Dude, back when I used Netscape Mail, I was a SLAVE TO THE LITTLE YELLOW EXCLAMATION POINT!!! I don't even wait for the envelope. I hit "check mail" over and over and over again every few minutes till something drops in my inbox.

― kate (kate), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 09:56 (twenty-two years ago)

the ppl I really can't understand are those who have Outlook set so you get a dialog box saying New Mail Has Arrived.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 10:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Mark, won't most people be using email for work? It's their duty to check email as soon as it arrives. having said that, oh my god it's sweet when the little yellow envelope pops up (though not in this current job as it's a purely work email account and it'll just be someone asking me to do something. Or asking Kirsty, which is who I am this week).

― Mark C (Mark C), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 10:25 (twenty-two years ago)

It's their duty to check email as soon as it arrives

hmmm, is that necessarily the case? Is this what we've come to?

You're being KIRSTY? How far do you take this - do you dress up?

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 10:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, and I become a lesbian too.

― Mark C (Mark C), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 10:28 (twenty-two years ago)

many of the emails that I receive in my job are not from ppl at all but just alerts from computers to let me know that new files have arrived or been sent by ftp, or that certain other processes have been completed. I think this has changed my attitude to the Envelope substantially, since I no longer think "Oh goody! Someone's contacting me!" as soon as I see it.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 10:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Which just reminded me, I haven't checked my work email in a week! My god, I have six emails, and they're all useless office forward spam!

― kate (kate), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 10:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I cannot ignore a little bouncing stamp for very long.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 10:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I tend to get more eager when no (good) mail has arrived for a while, and I'd jump into that envelope and only to discover it to be junk. But then again when I do receive loads of good emails I click on it straight away anyway.

It's bloody fantastic though when you've walked away from your desk for a few minutes and you come back and there are LOADS of mail waiting for you!!! (and that none are work related!)

The way also that the inbox Bolds the text also makes you want to click on it straight away, even if you KNOW that it's gonna be crap from the subject line.


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― ken c, Tuesday, 28 October 2003 10:50 (twenty-two years ago)

the global e-mail from Reception is my personal bugbear. they include such gems as

Red Escort ABC123X Your Lights Are On!

Blue Ear-ring Found!

If you are expecting any visitors next week, please contact Reception.

The Journals Building has now been renamed The Technology Building.

blah, blah, blah.....

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 11:04 (twenty-two years ago)

i wondered why my car wouldn't start.

― ken c, Tuesday, 28 October 2003 11:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Apropos of, er, something, I just got a message with the subject line "I've become your mail!"

― Priscilla Beaulieu Magnatech (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 11:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Office emails = dud. This deserves a thread of its own, but I'm too lazy to start one.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 12:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I always have to open it straight away. :-(

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 12:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Work email - dud dud dud, I end up shouting at my notify when it constantly beeps to inform me of 'more work'

Home email - Love getting mail !! and I'm always checking it and I open any mail straight away, and will reply to most of it just to get *another* mail back. I am so very sad.

― Fuzzy (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 12:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I have different email addresses for work and personal emails. I check the work one every hour or so, but I pounce on my personal email inbox the moment it says I have New Mail and usually answer the messages straight away. Like Fuzzy, I love getting mail from friends.

My Hotmail address is used for MBs only, and I don't always remember to check that one every day - it usually just attracts spam anyway:(

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 13:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I rarely check my home one as all my friends email me at work!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 13:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Sigh. I don't bother checking my email anymore because I know that no one has written me anyway. (Well, probably because they know that I'm too busy posting away on ILX to answer my email anyway!)

― kate (kate), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 13:28 (twenty-two years ago)

If you're using the free version of Hushmail, the big catch is that you have to check your account at least once every couple of weeks or so lest you run into the danger of having your account get deleted. You see, if you're a "free Hushmail" user and don't log into your account after three weeks, they just go, "We're going to drop you like a bad habit," and ta-da, no more accountage. And seeing as though how I'm too cheap to get the regular version of Hushmail, this is something I always keep in mind.

I haven't checked my ISP e-mail address in an age and a day, though.

(And as for reading new mail -- I usually delve right into it, unless it's from one of the mailing lists I'm on, in which case I just leave it unread until I can get to it. Should I ever find the time to get to it. Um, which hasn't happened in over a year. Eek.)

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 13:36 (twenty-two years ago)

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