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Re: email and time to think

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On Thu, 28 Mar 2019 11:31:09 -0400
RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:

> 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."
> 

I totally do not mean this post to come across negatively in any way. I
do this already at work. My policy for the last few years has been to
work all day and check my email at 4 pm. I'm please to report that no
one has ever died as a result. If people need this app to accomplish
the same end, I think it's a great thing. You get so much more done.

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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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