unsub from half my mailing lists

..is that it helps to re-establish priorities in your life. I find that if I go through all my mailing lists and whatnot every year and cut them down I truly find that I was off balance. Trimming them lets me get back in balance with my interests and priorities and also allows me the extra room/time to be involved in other things.

I went from 1000+ e-mails a day to maybe 100+ including personal messages.

I learned over the years that I didn’t have to join every single list out there and that it would be more functional to join a few meta lists and/or start my own lists to find interesting people/topics.

Just unsubbed from 5 more yahoogroups (I’m down to 19 now, most of which I’m nomail) and 1 other high traffic mailing list. Feels great!

At the outset, I was on 30 lists at yahoogroups alone (although nomail on 10 of those). A rough estimate of non-yahoo mailing lists that I’m on would be… 30. This includes newsletters and other things where I only receive things, I can’t send.

I guess I first need an exact tally of how many I’m on before I can actually accomplish leaving half of them.

But today I started by leaving 5 yahoogroups.