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February 02, 2003
Final progress...
Well, I got my inbox count down to just under 150 messages... This is good... clearly there's a lot more to go... About 20 or so of those messages represent significant work that I have to get down... the other 130 are about 20% important work... about 80% stuff I just have to get around to filing into the right mailbox folders... My old mail program (Mulberry from Cyrusoft) used to allow me to file outgoing messages and the one that I was responding to into a chosen folder right while I was clicking send... which was great... kept me much more organized... but at the moment, I'm using the Mac OS X mail client... which I really like, but it doesn't quite have all of the same great features as Mulberry... (so I just automatically just CC everything to myself which means each outgoing message needs to have two other actions just to keep it in the right storage location)... and I haven't yet gotten the gumption to give Microsoft Entourage a legitimate try (dragging my feet, actually, on that one). Well... off to bed. G'night.
Posted by Andrew at February 2, 2003 03:43 AM
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hey, why CC everything to yourself? Mail.app keeps copies of everything in the sent items folder if you tell it to...
You should add a synopsis of each new game you (we) play... :)
Posted by: Noah at February 2, 2003 06:00 PM
I CC everything because I need to be able to file both my outgoing and my incoming messages together into a correct topical folder on the server for future reference. The Sent folder (which I do use as well, but I think it's only stored locally) puts all of these outgoing messages together in a single "Sent" topic... as well as out of sight and out of mind... which causes me to ignore and forget about the things in them that I often need to follow up with an additional message. Also, CCing the message also serves to confirm to me that the message was actually sent... It also reminds the recipient that I'm keeping a copy of what I sent to them. Lots of good reasons.
As for posting about the games we play, I think that's a great idea and I may do it occasionally. I just don't want to commit myself to doing it every single time or else I'll wind up getting behind in my postings... Maybe when the rest of the world slows down for me.
Thanks for the comment, Noah...
Posted by: Andrew at February 3, 2003 02:15 AM