My email analogy
I find that email is a bit like Whac-A-Mole. I open my email program in the morning, respond to any messages, and then begin the waiting, Whac-A-Mole game. Some emails come back immediately, their senders sitting at their computers typing furiously to respond to whatever I said and then hitting the send button as fast as they can. Others bide their time, waiting and watching until I least expect it. Then they strike, whereupon I have to whack them back down again. At a certain point in the day, when everyone has gone to bed, the game ends, only to begin again the next morning.
I think I've pretty much run the 'email as Whac-A-Mole' analogy to its end. Maybe email is more like baseball...
Posted on August 3, 2005 3:45:35 PM EDT
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