New Tool Shows Would-Be Emailers If You're Swamped 82
alphadogg writes "A Georgia Tech researcher is taking aim at email overload with a new tool that shows people thinking about messaging you just how swamped your Gmail account is, in real time. Assistant Professor of Computing Eric Gilbert's research project, taking the form of the freely available 'Courteous.ly' service, which does require you to allow access to your email account (initially the service only works with Gmail). 'Courteous.ly helps manage expectations and lets people choose to send mail when it's best for you,' he says." This sounds like an ugly thing to game, though -- it seems like a good way to keep score in a mailbombing.
Re:No, please. No. (Score:4, Interesting)
Exactly, it is a feature of email. I've suggest adopting slow email; eventually people will expect to get a well thought out reply from you within 24 or 48 hours --- http://notes-from-a-sticky-wicket.blogspot.com/2008/03/my-slow-email-movement.html [blogspot.com]