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• [1] Anne from Times Square October 26, 2007 - 11:41AM

  Does the email ban include instant messages?

  
  
• [2] TM from Brooklyn October 26, 2007 - 11:43AM

  I love to turn off the email, but it piles up, and I am faced with an even more horrendous backlog. And people yell at you when you don't reply.

  
  
• [3] Ron from Upper Eastside October 26, 2007 - 11:46AM

  How about "No Work-Related E-mail Fridays", but "Yes to Personal E-mail Fridays", which would allow employees access to personal e-mail accounts so that we could plan our weekends. This would alleviate stress, make employees happier, thus improving productivity!

  
  
• [4] William Scruggs from New Jersey October 26, 2007 - 11:57AM

  Your comment about cell phones really strikes a chord with me. I find it amazing that people in public, shouting over background noise, think that their phone calls are private.

  And the present administration is doing their best to make sure email privacy includes them.

  
  
• [5] chestine from NY October 26, 2007 - 11:58AM

  who picked this topic? george carlin yesterday, this today?

  
  
• [6] eric fluger from jersey city October 26, 2007 - 12:08PM

  email is extremely useful for commnicating over large distances and/or large time zone differences and/or when a paper trail is required.

  for many folks email is a relatively new toy they can't put down. folks who've been using it for decades tend to keep it more in perspective, and presumabley the relative newcomers will catch up.

  also, not everyone appreciates the paper trail and i suspect that some complaints about other aspects of email are really motivated by this. so someone who gets caught telling different versions of the same story suddenly complains about "too much email".)