Comments on: SNARF your email http://commons.iabc.com/employee/2006/04/26/snarf-your-email/ A Blog Community for Business Communicators Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:33:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Lee Hopkins http://commons.iabc.com/employee/2006/04/26/snarf-your-email/#comment-725 Lee Hopkins Mon, 31 Jul 2006 13:56:12 +0000 http://commons.iabc.com/employee/2006/04/26/snarf-your-email/#comment-725 Bill, I tried SNARF for a while, but ended up pulling its plug because it tied up a lot of resource and I couldn't figure out how to 'drive' it more successfully than my current system - which is to delete anything not urgent and attend to the urgent stuff. Those emails I delete only come back at me closer to their deadline -- if they don't come back, they weren't that important. Too many times I find emails are monkeys that the originator wants me to put on my back -- I have enough of my own that I just push back unless they are REALLY insistent. Bill, I tried SNARF for a while, but ended up pulling its plug because it tied up a lot of resource and I couldn’t figure out how to ‘drive’ it more successfully than my current system - which is to delete anything not urgent and attend to the urgent stuff. Those emails I delete only come back at me closer to their deadline — if they don’t come back, they weren’t that important.

Too many times I find emails are monkeys that the originator wants me to put on my back — I have enough of my own that I just push back unless they are REALLY insistent.

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