Also, the company says it wants to fix e-mail overload.
E-MAIL 102 "For most people afflicted with e-mail overload, the problem isn't spam or unwanted newsletters," Inc. writes.
"Most of us are suffering from e-mail overload," said Neil E. Strother, a research director for NPD, a consumer market research firm.
Because it is such a pain to operate, the fax is generally used with discretion (a relief after e-mail overload).
PAGE B3 UBS Leaders Face Tax Charges B3 Swiss Ex-Minister Now at UBS B3 BJ's Profits Rise, Costco's Decline B5 Businesses Born to Do Good B5 Basics Managing E-Mail Overload It's close to the holy grail of the Internet age: an empty e-mail in-box.
In the past several months, Asana introduced a paid version for companies with more than 30 employees, and a new tool called Inbox that is intended to take project coordination out of e-mail in-boxes to save time and eliminate e-mail overload.
The increasing volume of electronic mail communication threatens to cause a state of "e-mail overload" where the volume of messages exceeds individuals' capacity to process them.
"In order to de-stress, you have to do some work up front," said Mark Hurst, a consultant and the author of Bit Literacy: Productivity in the Age of Information and E-mail Overload.
An advantage of an electronic forum is that it can prevent e-mail overload and all postings can be monitored to prevent inappropriate messages or communication.
Many of us start the work day dealing with one of the main causes of information overload: e-mail.
By Wednesday, Mr. Hamill said he had received 1,500 responses, and had to create a Web site, which he named poetsagainstthewar.org, to handle the e-mail messages that were overloading his system.
