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Re: Simple Time Saving Tip #62 - Stop Self Inflicted Junk EMail

Sid Savara — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 04:40:06 -0000

Hey John,

Thanks for the comment and the update =) I actually loved the domain name
StopForwarding.Us, I thought it was really clever ;). But I'm sure other
non-geeks prefer a regular .com extension and the service is great!

Re: Simple Time Saving Tip #62 - Stop Self Inflicted Junk EMail

John — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:56:34 -0000

Thanks for the post ! I would like to introduce myself as John from www.StopForwarding.Com, the website that allows individuals to politely and anonymously email to their friends and ask that they stop the habit of sending forwarded emails or FWDs.

This is Just a quick note to say that we have now moved our site from www.StopForwarding.us to www.StopForwarding.Com.

Re: Simple Time Saving Tip #62 - Stop Self Inflicted Junk EMail

Sid Savara — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:43:43 -0000

Hey Jason,

You know, you're right - when I wrote the blog post I wrote it from the
perspective of my assumptions for why we act the way we do. You bring up a
good point though - we will stay subscribed to some store's newsletter for
years, because we don't want to miss a sale, even though we haven't
purchased anything from any of the newsletters they have been sending for
months.

Re: Simple Time Saving Tip #62 - Stop Self Inflicted Junk EMail

Jason Christensen — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:44:40 -0000

I don't know if it is laziness all the time. Sometimes I think people have a hard time letting go, they think they are going to "miss" something if they unsubscribe. Also, I have written several blog posts on cleaning up email and creating efficiencies myself, feel free to check them out: http://su.pr/8w3tcn

Re: Simple Time Saving Tip #62 - Stop Self Inflicted Junk EMail

Sid Savara — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:42:07 -0000

Hi Richard,

Thanks for the comment! That book wouldn't be the Four-Hour Work Week by any chance would it? =)

I think another interesting think I read was the concept of "email bankruptcy." You delete everything, mass email everyone who emailed you and say sorry - I couldn't deal with it. I'm declaring email bankruptcy. If it was important, please resend it.

I've never done it, but I will admit to "marking all as read" when I'm reading blogs in Google Reader =)

Re: Simple Time Saving Tip #62 - Stop Self Inflicted Junk EMail

Sid Savara — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:40:27 -0000

Hi,

I'm on 2.6.2. I had been creating thumbnails manually for a while - the plugin is way better =)

Re: Simple Time Saving Tip #62 - Stop Self Inflicted Junk EMail

rdd — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:29:49 -0000

what version of wordpress you use , thanks , i am asking because i like the plugin for the thumbnails in excerpts .but obviosly with wordpress 2.5.1. does not work,please answer...

Re: Simple Time Saving Tip #62 - Stop Self Inflicted Junk EMail

McLaughlin — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 04:10:56 -0000

Great idea. I read a book about living with all the excess in social media and explains how to put yourself on a 'media diet'.

For people that insist on having spam, consider opening an email account at Yahoo or Gmail just for mailing lists. When you have time, have a look through the junk. If you don't have time, just let it build up and it won't be a clutter for your inbox.

The great thing about an account of junk, when it gets to be too much you can close the account .

Re: Simple Time Saving Tip #62 - Stop Self Inflicted Junk EMail

Sid Savara — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:39:13 -0000

That's a good idea too. I do that with some automated work emails I get daily (software developer "check in messages" - that people have updated the project with new code). I think most people though aren't like us - so many of them either 1) just leave it in their inbox or 2) get frustrated that it's there, and never unsubscribe - they just delete it =)

Re: Simple Time Saving Tip #62 - Stop Self Inflicted Junk EMail

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 09:31:25 -0000

I have a filter on my Gmail for all of those newsletters and whatnot that I read occasionally. Somewhere along the way I picked up the term 'Ham' (spam you sign up for) and it makes me chuckle when I go through it. It's more of a once a week thing, or if I'm bored. It is nice to have a cleaner inbox.