email and time to think

From	RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	email and time to think
Date	2019-03-28 11:31 -0400
Organization	solani.org
Message-ID	<20190328113109.20e2a9ce.rsw@therandymon.com> (permalink)

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Came across a link to this service, pony:
https://www.pony.gg/

They deliver your email once a day, ending the constant barrage of
interrupting messages that impede deep concentration at work.  The
modern office, in my case at least and it's true of everyone else I
know although I suspect most of Usenet is retired now or working from
home, a neverending cascade of email, phone calls, skype,
skype-for-biz, and now text messages and whatsapp notifications (each
interrupting the previous).  Tough staying focused.

In hindsight, POP3 permitted a better lifestyle: connect, download
mail, deal with it, get back to work.  Polling email mechanisms mean
there's never a break.  I'd briefly considered a system where
sendmail/postfix deliver twice a day - 8AM and 3PM, leaving the rest of
the day to get stuff done.  Pros told me my employees would hate it.
But they also hate the never ending barrage, too.

Always-On is Always No Fun.

I do like Pony's tag line: "Use Pony for anything that isn't urgent.
Which is basically everything."

-- 
RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com>

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email and time to think RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-03-28 11:31 -0400
  Re: email and time to think Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-03-28 15:33 +0000
    Re: email and time to think Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2019-03-28 20:26 +0000
      Re: email and time to think RS Wood <rswood@therandymon.com> - 2019-03-28 21:27 -0400
        Re: email and time to think Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2019-03-29 03:17 -0300
          Re: email and time to think Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2019-03-29 10:05 +0000
            Re: email and time to think Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2019-03-29 16:46 -0300
              Re: email and time to think RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-03-29 21:49 -0400
                Re: email and time to think Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2019-03-31 17:27 -0300
          Re: email and time to think Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2019-03-29 20:20 +0000
          Re: email and time to think Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-03-29 21:17 +0000
            Re: email and time to think scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2019-04-01 16:28 +0000
              Re: email and time to think Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-04-02 01:29 +0000
                Re: email and time to think RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-04-02 21:00 -0400
                Re: email and time to think Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-04-03 14:33 +0000
                email threading Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.net> - 2019-04-03 16:00 +0000
                Re: email threading Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2019-04-03 16:59 +0000
                Re: email threading scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2019-04-05 16:26 +0000
                Re: email threading RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-04-05 21:55 -0400
                Re: email threading Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.net> - 2019-04-07 05:15 +0000
                Re: email threading Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2019-04-08 01:30 +0000
                Re: email threading Pabst Blue Ribbon <pabst@blue.ribbon> - 2019-04-10 14:18 +0000
                Re: email threading Dmitry Alexandrov <321942@gmail.com> - 2019-04-11 04:12 +0300
        Re: email and time to think Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-03-29 21:11 +0000
          Re: email and time to think Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2019-03-31 15:32 +0100
  Re: email and time to think Oregonian Haruspex <no_email@invalid.invalid> - 2019-03-29 06:36 +0000
  Re: email and time to think visiblink <visiblink@mail.invalid> - 2019-03-29 19:56 -0700
  Re: email and time to think Dostoevsky <dosdoevsky@protonmail.com> - 2019-03-29 23:35 -0500

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