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Old 02-21-07, 07:40 PM
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Alcoholics have one, and so do drug abusers. Now people addicted to e-mail also have a 12-step program designed to tackle their obsession. Following are the 12 steps of a plan devised by executive coach Marsha Egan in Pennsylvania to teach people how to manage their e-mail:
  1. Admit that e-mail is managing you. Let go of your need to check e-mail every ten minutes.
  2. Commit to keeping your inbox empty.
  3. Create files where you can put inbox material that needs to be acted on.
  4. Make broad headings for your filing system so that you have to spend less time looking for filed material.
  5. Deal immediately with any e-mail that can be handled in two minutes or less but create a file for mails that will take longer.
  6. Set a target date to empty your in box. Don't spend more than an hour at a time doing it.
  7. Turn off automatic send/receive.
  8. Establish regular times to review your e-mail.
  9. Involve others in conquering your addiction.
  10. Reduce the amount of e-mail you receive.
  11. Save time by using only one subject per e-mail; delete extra comments from forwarded e-mail, and make the subject line detailed.
  12. Celebrate taking a new approach to e-mail.
Haha this is for me. I'm constantly in Outlook.

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I never had a problem with an addiction to e-mail, but whoever does, it must be hard. *sigh*
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Hahaha. (Yes, it's true...it is hard. )

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I barely check my e-mail... So I'm not addicted. YAY

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Quickly! Someone write a congratulatory speech/ throw a congratulatory party/ start a congrats thread!
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i check my email like once every 2 months
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lol i dont really check my emails maybe once or twice wenever i get on the computer but i usually spend most of my time on PTF wen i go on the computer so yea.
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I don't think I have an e-mail addiction. About the only times I check my e-mail is to see if I've received any replies from gaming companies or I just check it if it shows I got mail. Now a forum addiction, that's a different story.
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I chesk all four of my emails, like twice a day, I wouldn't call it an addition though, nothing like I am addicted to myspace, and forums.
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i check my emails all at once only once a week, and i dont know how someone can be addicted to email
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