please empty your brain below
You mean there are people who don't do this?

I do it, and I strongly expect most people do (or else they simply delete this sort of stuff rather than leave it around to haunt them), but I don't feel guilty about it any longer.

Blue Witch | Homepage | 15.04.09 - 9:03 a.m. | #

Interestingly, I am on top of my e-mail. Blogging is a different matter though...

Doctor Oddverse | 15.04.09 - 9:58 a.m. | #

You can delete a number of the emails and suffer no ill consequences. You have failed to respond in reasonable time so a late response would be worse than deletion. The others, well, there are answers but you are old enough to work those out for yourself.

Bina | Homepage | 15.04.09 - 10:33 a.m. | #

If responding to an email will get you money you are owed, or will open up an opportunity, answer it.

If you dont respond to the first, you'll be out of pocket. If you dont want to respond to the second because it will compromise your standards, then consider the opportunity missed. And kick yourself. Or fess up and respond with "Doing this would put me in a postition I'd rather not be in - sorry".

Opportunity is not a lengthy visitor. Bite the bullet.

Capability Bowes | Homepage | 15.04.09 - 11:17 a.m. | #

Festering email? Solution: Dettol. Or TCP. You choose.

Albert | 15.04.09 - 11:37 a.m. | #

I'm honoured by the prompt replies to my (very) occasional communications.

Johnny Topaz | 15.04.09 - 1:13 p.m. | #

I'm like that with blogging. Can it really be more than two months since I last posted something?

Dave | Homepage | 15.04.09 - 1:47 p.m. | #

I'm glad it's not just me who lets e-mails fester. With that in mind, this was a strangely re-assuring post...

mike | Homepage | 15.04.09 - 4:08 p.m. | #

i am *exactly* the same.

want a response from me? then the shorter the email, the better.

Geofftech | Homepage | 15.04.09 - 4:34 p.m. | #

Its just laziness. You spend an hour or more every day writing a blog - give yourself the day off tomorrow and apply a bit of self discipline. *sheesh*

Exit, pursued by a bear | Homepage | 15.04.09 - 8:30 p.m. | #

"It's an invite to a big party, quite a few months in the future, somewhere awkward (but gettable to)."

How weird. I'm now trying to work out if I know you but didn't realise I knew you, seeing as I sent an invite out last week to a big party some months in the future, somewhere awkward but gettable to, with an urgent RSVP attached... it's not a 40th birthday camping trip, is it? Of course not. I guess there are just lots of people planning parties in the future. But I'm thinking maybe I shouldn't have stressed RSVP so heavily...

clare | Homepage | 15.04.09 - 10:38 p.m. | #

Fortunately, I'm good at keeping on top of e-mails. I also make a point of replying to e-mails out of courtesy where appropriate. However, like you, I always find there are a few awkward messages which I should respond to but have no idea what to say in my reply.

Of course, the problem is worse if you often get hundreds of e-mails a day. How are you meant to respond to all that lot, I wonder?

Andrewh | 16.04.09 - 1:02 a.m. | #

i've sent you an email dg... i hope it doesn't add to the festering pile

for what it's worth this is how i deal with email too, if it's in the inbox, it needs to be dealt with, simple

now, dealing with text messages, that's a whole different ball game......

dark | 16.04.09 - 7:48 p.m. | #

Have you been looking at my mail box?

Mo | Homepage | 18.04.09 - 12:29 a.m. | #

I do the same too, and am also reassured by this post. The worst, I find, are the friendly letters, usually blog-related, which I reply to and then get another reply. At what point is it all right to let the conversation peter out?

Z | Homepage | 18.04.09 - 10:03 a.m. | #











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