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Friday, July 13, 2007 12:00 AM

Empty thine in-box

A spate of e-mail etiquette guides and productivity manuals commands us to clear out our e-mail. Don't we all have better things to do?
By Scott Rosenberg

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  • Friday, July 13, 2007 07:18 AM

    Hey Mr. Professor:

    I currently have a shade over 1300 unread emails in my inbox, and yet I sit here, clothed and fed. Incredible.

    I agree with Mr. Rosenberg: My current email sorting routine (doing nothing) takes zero seconds of my day, so any other technique would, therefore, be less efficent.

    Some people, however, just get off on organization for its own sake.

    Do people honestly lay in bed at night and think fondly on their empty inboxes ? Who can't wait to get up and get to sortin' and deletin'?

    —cardboardbelt Read cardboardbelt's other letters

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