Hi Januk,
On Tue, 1 Feb 2000 20:45:32 -0800GMT (02/02/2000, 12:45 +0800GMT),
Januk Aggarwal wrote:
JA> Now if you could set the priority of mail that you *receive* either
JA> manually or through filters, then this might have some more use.
But I'm doing this: "private" means read first, "business" means read
second (and in the order of origin country, i.e. time zone, starting
with Australia and going West until I reach US West Coast), and
"mailing list" means, well, (no offense <g>).
JA> Agreed, I doubt my messages, to people I consider important, are being
JA> ignored, but I'm sure you can come up with some far out scenario
JA> where this might happen.
Apart from spamming? No.
JA> But just to give a counter argument to your statement that all
JA> messages have equal chance of being read, that's not true. What if
JA> your recipient reads the first few lines and decides that it isn't
JA> worth reading.
If the recipient is a friend: make his folder a sub-folder to "distant
acquaintances". If he is a business partner: look for another one. If
he is your brother: tough luck. He will not be likely to change his
behaviour just because you have a red-colour envolope in front of your
name in the message list.
JA> Then your message is unlikely to be read in full. If you set the
JA> priority flag, it might get a little more attention.
I doubt that, and here is the reason:
JA> However this is a problem with the sender's writing style, and so it
JA> needs to be fixed there.
Right.
>> Urgent business enquiries have the word "URGENT" in the subject.
JA> That is probably a lot better since you can be a lot more
JA> descriptive. For example: "Important"
That is implicit, if the message is from me. I don't send
"unimportant" business emails. ;-) If I receive "Important" messages
in my private email account, it has so far always been spam.
JA> or "To be done today"
*Each* email and fax has to be replied to within 24 hours, those marked
"urgent" within 2 hours - company rule. I support (and enforce) the
rule. Private mails will be replied to within the time frame I see
appropriate (and that can be a lot faster than business email <g>).
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Cheers,
Thomas.
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