Modern Misdemeanors

[jducoeur]

#312 -- sending email to mailing lists when your computer's calendar is messed up, so the email comes through with the wrong date. For those us of who archive stuff, it means that the message winds up forever in the wrong place in the archive, leading to eternal confusion.

Punishment: Having to organize your life using only Microsoft Outlook for three months. (Surely those stupid popup reminders were intended as a torture mechanism.)

Comments

[tpau]

hey, i lnotonly like outlook, i organize my life by it....

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

I've given up on sorting by "sent" dates, and go by "Received" dates. This leads to some locally out-of-order threads, but helps on those mailing lists where there are 3 morons who start threads with messages dated Jan 1, 1970.

[cellio]

I use pine, so the messages are archived in the order in which I pop them into the folder. This can be handy when I've sat on a message for a while before replying; the message and my reply will still be adjacent in the archive, because I don't archive mail until I've responded to it (if it required a response) and I archive my sent mail pretty much immediately.