Whatever makes you comfortable is the most important, but I think you are just rearranging the deck chairs.

I will say that despite my view that text on a screen is text on a screen, I must say the the learning management system I use for online courses has a threaded discussion system we use that I do not care for. It is more the asynchronous nature of it than the format, but the stairstep format is also not to my liking. I would rather the student responses be sent to me by email. I like everything in one place.

Then again there is the unfortunate email feature called Reply All that I do not think I need to discuss further, less my blood pressure rise again.

I still say that text on a screen is text on a screen. Try rules and filters to move the junk to the deleted folder.

E-mail is a great tool. If it is causing problems, I think you have a human issue. I.e. you should tell people to stop sending you irrelevant e-mails.

That is a stunningly simplistic analysis of the situation. Email is a "one to many" tool and in large organization it's almost impossible to "legislate" email behavior.

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And why would any other tool be any better?

Please point to anything in my response that implied I thought there was a better tool.

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The tenor of your post to the thread. If not, I withdraw my comment.

The tenor of my post was related to the fact that in a large organization, anyone, from anywhere can send you email, cc you on email, forward you email, reply to all on every email, or just about anything else; whether you want them to, whether you asked them not to, etc.

The poster's assertion that it's just a "human problem" and tell people not to send you irrelevant emails is incredibly simplistic; for example some of those "irrelevant" emails come from my bosses'

I can control how I choose to handle email and even to some degree I have some ability to influence the behaviors for my direct staff, but beyond that? Not so much...

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