While cleaning out my files I was somewhat shocked to find that I had 2.3 gigabytes of saved email. And I've been fairly frugal with what I've bothered to save and retain over the years at work.
Over at Financial Cryptography there is a post today about how email is no longer reliable, citing a legal case where a lawyer's spam blocking software blocked notice from the court. When the laywer didn't show for the hearing his clients case was in danger of being dismissed.
What to do about the email overload? Maybe Donald Knuth had the right idea fifteen years ago...
—Michael A. Cleverly
Friday, February 25, 2005 at 17:37
Don Knuth cheats though, he has all his email filtered through a secretary--the original spam filter. He still uses email, or at least make himself available there, just at a distance.
I'd be tempted to swear off email, too, with a setup like that.