"Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote in message
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> Orchid XP v7 wrote:
> > Pffft. Try not checking your email while subscribed to the Haskell cafe
> > group. That thing regularly generates 200 messages PER DAY. :-P
>
> I used to get that much from my coworkers.
>

I went into work yesterday after a 4 day weekend to find 575 mails in my
inbox, about 1780 status emails from various servers and about 300 emails
reporting severe errors.

It's about average these days

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Gail Shaw wrote:

> I went into work yesterday after a 4 day weekend to find 575 mails in my
> inbox, about 1780 status emails from various servers and about 300 emails
> reporting severe errors.
> 
> It's about average these days

I used to get status emails from the RAID controller on our DB server 
(??!) when the server rebooted.

These days, it's our document management system. If you're supposed to 
be reviewing a document, it likes to spam you daily.

Even better, if you exceed your mailbox limit, the Exchange server spams 
you hourly. (??!?!)

Seriously, hourly. I told the admin I thought that's a little OTT, so he 
made it spam you ever 4 hours instead. WTF?

-- 
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*

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On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:47:05 +0000, Orchid XP v7 wrote:

> Gail Shaw wrote:
> 
>> I went into work yesterday after a 4 day weekend to find 575 mails in
>> my inbox, about 1780 status emails from various servers and about 300
>> emails reporting severe errors.
>> 
>> It's about average these days
> 
> I used to get status emails from the RAID controller on our DB server
> (??!) when the server rebooted.
> 
> These days, it's our document management system. If you're supposed to
> be reviewing a document, it likes to spam you daily.
> 
> Even better, if you exceed your mailbox limit, the Exchange server spams
> you hourly. (??!?!)

I manage a Mailman list at work (one of several moderators for the list) 
- I get subscribe/unsubscribe notices by the bucketload every day.  I've 
got a rule for the unsub messages (because I don't care when someone 
leaves the list).

And people wonder why I don't like Exchange (yes, I know it's 
configurable). ;-)

Jim

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"Orchid XP v7" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
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> Seriously, hourly. I told the admin I thought that's a little OTT, so he
> made it spam you ever 4 hours instead. WTF?

Ours is set to notify once a day, which isn't too bad. Still, if I'm away
for more than a week, I'm guarenteed to have at least one over-sized mailbox
notification.

One of our bright-spark developers wrote an error handler for an import
routine that mails the DBA team with any file that fails to import. The
files range from half a MB up to just over 3MB, and generally if one of the
files is badly formed, several for the same day will be. The mailbox size
limit is 10MB

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Jim Henderson wrote:
> That's what happens when you take a week off from here.  Scary. :-)
> 
> Jim

You have to prioritize.  I don't read every thread, and don't finish 
every thread I read :)

-- 
...Ben Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com

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> You have to prioritize.  I don't read every thread, and don't finish every 
> thread I read :)

Yeh me neither, if I did I would never get anything else done! I tend to 
only read the recent threads, anything older than a few days is off my 
screen and I rarely scroll back ;-)

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scott wrote:
>> You have to prioritize.  I don't read every thread, and don't finish 
>> every thread I read :)
> 
> Yeh me neither, if I did I would never get anything else done! I tend to 
> only read the recent threads, anything older than a few days is off my 
> screen and I rarely scroll back ;-)

Damn. I need to prioritise. I'm usually so bored I read almost every 
post in every thread... :-|

-- 
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*

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> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> That's what happens when you take a week off from here.  Scary. :-)
>>
>> Jim
> 
> You have to prioritize.  I don't read every thread, and don't finish 
> every thread I read :)
> 

Gotta love NNTP. In web forums, if you click a thread, it marks the 
whole thread as read. Even if you still haven't read any of the 100 
posts, and you read only a dozen and then stop, you can't keep track of 
what you already read.

Newsreaders keep read status for individual posts.

<3

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On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:19:21 -0700, Chambers wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> That's what happens when you take a week off from here.  Scary. :-)
>> 
>> Jim
> 
> You have to prioritize.  I don't read every thread, and don't finish
> every thread I read :)

That's pretty much what I did.  Look for things I was already talking 
about, catch those up, and then read the root and see if I as interested 
in other topics. :-)

Jim

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On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:15:25 -0300, Nicolas Alvarez wrote:

> Chambers escribió:
>> Jim Henderson wrote:
>>> That's what happens when you take a week off from here.  Scary. :-)
>>>
>>> Jim
>> 
>> You have to prioritize.  I don't read every thread, and don't finish
>> every thread I read :)
>> 
>> 
> Gotta love NNTP. In web forums, if you click a thread, it marks the
> whole thread as read. Even if you still haven't read any of the 100
> posts, and you read only a dozen and then stop, you can't keep track of
> what you already read.
> 
> Newsreaders keep read status for individual posts.

Yep, I hate using web forums.  vBulletin is good because it can gate to 
NNTP groups, and there are a few others that do that as well.  I don't 
understand how anyone can use a web forum effectively.

Jim

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