All kingdom lists or specific topic lists go to one address. That gets cleaned out twice a day or more if I am home and most of them go on vacation hold when I am at Pennsic. I am brutal: half the people on any given list are on delete on arrival, once a topic goes astray or is not of interest it is on delete on arrival...or I'd never get through them all.
I don't go back and read on vacation hold. I don't read any list that is more than 25% drivel (defined as not of interest to me - it's MY time!).
I have a personal email for the real world and for SCA, those are each message read, delete unless a reply needed, filed after reply and within 24 hours of receipt.
I have another for officer stuff and land agent/event steward stuff. Those get attended to every morning until the task is completed then the address gets changed to cut down on spamload.
99% of what I receive is not really relevant (I don't get work email to speak of, other than continuing education stuff and that goes to yet another address and gets dealt with ASAP because it matters!)
So my secret is, be brutal. Read it once, file it (10% if that) or delete it. It probably also helps that I can only spend so much time at the computer a day due to a nerve issue that the keyboard and mouse aggrevate.
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I don't go back and read on vacation hold. I don't read any list that is more than 25% drivel (defined as not of interest to me - it's MY time!).
I have a personal email for the real world and for SCA, those are each message read, delete unless a reply needed, filed after reply and within 24 hours of receipt.
I have another for officer stuff and land agent/event steward stuff. Those get attended to every morning until the task is completed then the address gets changed to cut down on spamload.
99% of what I receive is not really relevant (I don't get work email to speak of, other than continuing education stuff and that goes to yet another address and gets dealt with ASAP because it matters!)
So my secret is, be brutal. Read it once, file it (10% if that) or delete it. It probably also helps that I can only spend so much time at the computer a day due to a nerve issue that the keyboard and mouse aggrevate.
t_C