I read an article in The Wall Street Journal about the dichotomy of those that hoard emails in their inbox and those that minimize the amount of emails in their inbox.

Personally, I have always been a deleter. If it's really important I leave it my inbox, but even with plenty of storage and search features, I'd rather maintain an inbox that promotes efficiency.

Which one are you?

9/8/2006 3:06:24 PM

I have emails going back probably more than six years.

Definitely a hoarder.

9/8/2006 3:07:45 PM

i hoard

9/8/2006 3:08:55 PM

Quote :

"Fri Dec 21, 2001"

Hoarder.

9/8/2006 3:13:20 PM

i hoard.

what did it say the differences meant? or were they just pointing out that people tend to be one type or the other?

9/8/2006 3:13:20 PM

i hoard for a semester. about halfway through the next semester i delete the old ones. i keep anything even remotely important though (old paypal disputes, complaints, teacher issues, etc).

9/8/2006 3:16:15 PM

i use gmail...that should answer the question

9/8/2006 3:17:19 PM

hoard good ones, delete 80%

9/8/2006 3:20:13 PM

Quote :

"what did it say the differences meant? or were they just pointing out that people tend to be one type or the other?"

Jeffrey Zaslow said that it may suggest that you may feel validated by having a full inbox or having an empty one.

Hoarders often said they felt like outlaws. Sometimes their inbox can reach insanity and they may be afraid that their IT dept may hunt them down.

Also, senders may feel slighted when their email messages are quickly deleted after being read by the Deleter.

9/8/2006 3:23:21 PM

at work- a deleter
at home- a hoarder

9/8/2006 3:25:10 PM

hoarder

9/8/2006 3:25:19 PM

im definately a hoarder.....i keep everything except spam. i dont think it gives me any validation, i just like having records of things and being able to check something again.

at my work, if you dont save your emails to a folder on your computer after 3 months the automatically get deleted. ive been burned before becuase for a month or two last year i didnt save my emails. ive tried to find certain emails that were sent during that time, and i couldnt because they were gone.

9/8/2006 3:26:22 PM

i hoard...especially at work. i may delete some emails after a time, but i hoard them for at least 6-8 months before they get the axe. (i get about 30-50 emails a day between my work account and my personal account so 6-8 months worth of that is a lot of email)

however i delete the instant messages on my work software...it helps me keep up with what tasks i've done.

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9/8/2006 3:31:44 PM

ahhhh

the lotus janitor.

we finally got rid of that int he engineering department.

oddly enough for work im an ultra hoarder, but for personal emails im a deleter.

eh

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9/8/2006 3:31:52 PM

At home and work...

9/8/2006 3:42:41 PM

hoarder all around. I hoard gaim convos even, at least a year and a half of them is on this computer and in my back ups.

9/8/2006 3:43:15 PM

hoard like a motherfucker

9/8/2006 3:44:45 PM

Getting. Things. Done.

Definitely a deleter

9/8/2006 4:20:44 PM

hoard

9/8/2006 4:22:31 PM

i horde into files for like 6 mos

then im a mass deleter

9/8/2006 4:23:30 PM

delete

9/8/2006 4:42:02 PM

delete spam/junk

hoarde other emails

you never know when you'll need to look back at an email from 8 months ago

9/8/2006 4:45:09 PM

delete delete delete

9/8/2006 5:31:13 PM

Quote :

"i use gmail...that should answer the question"

Quote :

"im definately a hoarder.....i keep everything except spam."

with way more storage than I need, and the option of finding what I want immediately, I see no reason to delete emails.

9/8/2006 5:34:11 PM

hoard, but then i go on mad delete binges where i end up deleting important shit just to get my inbox empy, but that only happens like once a year

9/8/2006 5:37:38 PM

serious deleter

at home & work

9/8/2006 5:55:59 PM

Hoarder, but I'm highly organized. I only keep 10 things in my inbox and everything else is in a specific folder.

9/8/2006 5:58:01 PM

deleter. only have less than a page

9/8/2006 6:01:20 PM

I hoard them. At least three or four years. But I do have them organized somewhat.

9/8/2006 6:08:17 PM

i'd like to go through and clean my inbox out, but i have wayyyy too many pages.

9/8/2006 6:10:01 PM

hoarder

thank god for gmail's search function

9/8/2006 6:18:42 PM

i thought this was about porn

9/8/2006 6:23:33 PM

I hoard that too.

9/8/2006 6:31:26 PM

Sat Feb 20, 1999

Def dont delete it unless i have to have to.

9/8/2006 7:10:28 PM

hoard, and there's been several times where I was glad I did

9/8/2006 7:42:34 PM

Aug 6, 2004

Not super terrible, but that's most all of the emails over two years. I still have some archived from years and years ago, though.

9/8/2006 7:44:12 PM

all depends on how busy i am at the time on whether i sort it or hoard it in the inbox...

9/8/2006 7:58:18 PM

Hoard y0

9/8/2006 8:01:31 PM

Zug zug.

9/8/2006 8:02:04 PM

DABOO

9/8/2006 8:09:31 PM

i always hoard at work, mainly for "cover your ass" reasons.

9/8/2006 11:49:37 PM

I sort mine into folders. I always try to keep my INBOX clear, yet I never delete anything that isn't SPAM. Where do I fit into this equation?

9/9/2006 12:17:13 AM

That would qualify as hoarding.

Placing email in folders can be exasperating if you can't remember which folder a message is in.

As long as your computer's search tools and storage capacity are up to the task, then organization is better than a stuffed inbox

9/9/2006 1:32:17 PM

Quote :

"4620 unread messages"

9/9/2006 1:37:43 PM

hoarder

9/9/2006 2:31:08 PM

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"That would qualify as hoarding"

I don't think so. If you keep your inbox clean, that is a deleter. If you keep the mails in your inbox (instead of deleting them or organizing or archiving them), then you are a hoarder.

9/9/2006 2:34:56 PM

^I think that's hoarding.

9/9/2006 2:41:22 PM

Quote :

"those that hoard emails in their inbox and those that minimize the amount of emails in their inbox"

i was just going on the first post

9/9/2006 2:48:06 PM

I hoard, but I move stuff to a separate folder.

9/9/2006 7:42:10 PM

I hate when I have to save stuff for whatever reason.

9/9/2006 7:42:50 PM