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Why is that different?

What happens when a server starts acting up and you are flooded with 10 error emails per second. Will you go click through all of them even though they're essentially the same?

That can cost you an hour of your time, easily.

Ok you can write a filter and automatically mark them as read. Which still costs you at least 10 minutes of your time.

Or you could just ... not care. This costs you 0 minutes of your time. You merely mentally update the "zero" of your inbox.




Ctrl+A + E. (Or select all & auto-archive.)

Archiving's the perfect solution to my irrational stress, because nothing's deleted, but its out of my way.


Seems like the "not care" tactic risks missing legit messages from someone in between the flood of alerts.




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