Comments on: Inbox Victory: photos of people who've emptied their inboxes

By: guigao

guigao — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

This is a huge finger!

By: Antinous

Antinous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve been online for 10+ years. I have four e-mail addresses. I’ve never used any spam filters. I get less than ten pieces of spam per day. Am I doing the internet wrong?

By: Takuan

Takuan — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

they’re afraid of you

By: Adam Backstrom

Adam Backstrom — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

test

By: Adam Backstrom

Adam Backstrom — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

(Sorry, misclick!)

By: pepsi_max2k

pepsi_max2k — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

i sit me or is that inbox full of stuff? and marking everything as “read” (tick all, mark read) doesn’t seem like much of an accomplishment, does it? now deleting (or selectively archiving) those 1051+ emails, now that’s an accomplishment. and one i’m still failing to this day :(

By: Adam Stanhope

Adam Stanhope — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Yeah – how come GMail can’t figure out that I don’t want to read the Russian spam?

By: Cowicide

Cowicide — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

#9 posted by WebsiteWavesBlog:

Email has just gotten so way out of hand. It’s even worse if you have clients.

What I hate is dealing with clients who run Windows. Every time I send out emails from my Mac to a bunch of Windows-using clients, I start getting spam! It’s from everyone who unknowingly has a Windows machine infested with spyware that collects all their email contacts and sends them out for spammers to use. When I exchange email with udder Mac users, I never see an influx of spam as a result.

I’ve actually begun adding a hidden surcharge whenever I work with people who use Windows. It’s just more of a pain in the ass in general. I find out what they use before I even start on the proposals. You use a Mac or Ubuntu, etc.? No extra charge.

By: owza

owza — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I don’t think her inbox was empty she just had zero unread messages… (Gmail Tip, search for is:unread and then mark all as read)

By: Antinous

Antinous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Oh. That.

By: Narual

Narual — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The only proper way to congratulate someone on emptying their inbox is to send them an email. Or several.

By: wackyvorlon

wackyvorlon — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

My gmail currently has 13,865 unread emails. I try not to let them stay unread for more than a year:)

By: Adam Stanhope

Adam Stanhope — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

My GMail inbox is at 36145.

By: Glark

Glark — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Same people who had their parents stand around the potty and clap and do a little dance when the kid made a boom-boom.

By: John Markos O'Neill

John Markos O'Neill — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

#3 Pepsi Max2k, for most Gmail users, marking everything as “read” is equivalent to emptying the inbox.

#6 Trust me, that’s an accomplishment.

I’ve been at inbox zero for years, so I no longer think of it as unusual. I’m merciless about marking everything as read, and only reading things that look interesting or important. Same with feeds.

By: Bryan C

Bryan C — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

What’s the point, really? My mail program doesn’t care if I read anything or not. It all searches the same.

By: WebsiteWavesBlog

WebsiteWavesBlog — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Email has just gotten so way out of hand. It’s even worse if you have clients. I wound up getting an email backup account so every six months or so I can purge my live email over to the backup as I need to retain emails for years from clients. Sure wish I could just zap them all sometimes (I mean the emails, not the clients).

By: Narual

Narual — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Yeah… keeping up with email isn’t a problem since I set all my email addresses to filter through Gmail… went from 1000-1500 spams per day to maybe 10 a week getting through, which are usually in russian and really easy to spot.

Now, if I were to get my unrated tracks on itunes down to 0, that I might consider worthy of some kind of applause from someone, somewhere…

By: Antiglobalism

Antiglobalism — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Why is it so important to have a zero inbox? I have about 15,000 emails in my inbox, not on Gmail obviously, but it’s good to store valuable information. You can also create folders and stash emails selectively via filters.

By: Broadband Girl

Broadband Girl — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The only way I try keep on top of all the emails is to be brutal; just junk stuff that looks like it is…still end up wasting half my morning going through a long trail of emails though.

By: gornzilla

gornzilla — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Wow, this is great. Two weekends ago I spent 14 hours clearing out 2,300 inbox messages and got to 40. I need to switch gmail to POP so I can download my messages when I’m on the road.

By: Gareth Branwyn

Gareth Branwyn — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hey, it’s our very own Make: Blog/Craft: Blog Becky Stern in the photo. Yay, email victory, Becky! W00t!