This is Stephen Robbins.

Welcome to the Get It Done guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

Email. I just love email.

I do. Really? No, I don't. I hate email.

I've been using it a long time, longer than you.

And the awesomeness wore off before you had ever heard of

the internet. Spam was the big problem of the 1990s, but for the most part, spam is pretty much

dealt with by spam filters at your mail host. As I've discussed before, I have separate email

addresses for my potentially spammable email addresses, and there's an episode on this,

a link in this episode's

transcript. When I buy an airline ticket or a shop at the local online store, they each get a

separate email address. That way, all the spam they're going to send ends up in my low-priority

inbox, which I only check, well, never. Never is a problem,. "'My problem these days isn't spam.

"'It's legitimate mailing lists for things that I'm genuinely interested in.

"'Mailing lists about how to eat and exercise

"'to develop a manly man body.

"'Eat your heart out, get-fit guy, Ben Greenfield.

"'Soon I'll be able to do five pull-ups.

"'M-hmm, beat that.

"'Theater groups that I belong to, marketing information

from vendors that I actually care about, and of course shipping information for those

awesomely fashionable spandex travel underwear just like Ben's, and of course my daily dose of comics.

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