The Wall Street Journal posted yet another article on the topic of email overload titled “Email’s Friendly Fire”, last week. Once again, it takes up the issue of unwanted messages clogging people’s inboxes (see also my previous posts about Occupational Spam).

“Colleague Spam” is the buzzword of the day describing those annoying emails coming from co-workers who are hitting the reply-to-all button, copying too many people on trivial matters to CYA or sending those seemingly well-intended “Thank you!” one-liners. Now add a new onslaught of invite and update emails from various social networking sites and it becomes even harder to get any “real” work done.

“Until recently, Mukesh Lulla, president of a networking and security-software company called TeamF1 Inc., spent so much time sorting through emails he received each day that he barely had time to run his business.”

As Roger Matus points out on his blog, this is nothing new and we seem to have come full circle.

Solutions to this problem exist and are various, reaching from technology to simple user education. The article even lists some new concepts that use technology to invoke change of corporate culture.

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