Sunday, June 22, 2008

Advice Column: Email Clutter by Geniusofdespair

I have to admit I am way beyond hating email clutter...jokes, and other useless stuff friends and strangers send. Every time I have to hit a key it bothers me...pain wise. I am in the midst of learning a voice recognition program. When I ask it to delete, it deletes about 10 messages I can’t get back. I have to say “delete key” to delete one message. The learning curve is enormous. So, when I go to my email and the blog email I am overwhelmed with the hundreds of keystrokes I will have to administer just to delete. Every hit of a key or the mouse, I think about.

If only people will begin to understand that all of us that spend an enormous amount of time on the computer will get to this stage and that sending emails of no consequence is just thoughtless for people with repetitive motion problems.

To show you the learning curve of voice recognition software, here is the last sentence dictated:

You for only people we will begin to understand that all of us that span enormous amount of time on the, computer will get to this stage and that send e-mail of no consequences is thought was for people with repetitive motion problems.


3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Guilty as charged...will stop. I thought you would enjoy Krome Gold jokes, but I understand. So sorry.

Anonymous said...

I think it is a good policy for everyone to stop sending emails of no significance. Then people might read the more important emails. I am in total agreement even without any hand problems.

Anonymous said...

I get bushels of e-mails, most of which are junk forwarded and forwarded. Fortunately I have a master delete key so I have no problem with the junk. Some days five or six from one person without any intelligence in any of them. i know of several people with carpol tunnel and I understand their problem. They need a master delete button.