_Unsubscribe

The other day at work I was included on an email chain that I did not have to be.  It was a conversation between and project manager and an account rep.  I was not the only person on it, there was a data analyst and an editor.  I just ignored the emails flying in and deleting them when I could, but then I saw one of the coolest things in an email.  At the top of the email chain was a reply from the data analyst with just one word: unsubscribe.  I laughed out loud!  I wish it was that easy.  Well, over the next few days, I copied his action and guess what…it is working.

Then it got me thinking, I am just going to unsubscribe from everything.  Bye-bye Amazon, Ebay, MSDN, etc…I will visit your site when “I” feel like it.

There are 100′s of emails I get a week.  Tech, games, shopping a ton.  I moved my email over to gmail from hotmail (which I had since 98) and starting my email life over.  I feel such freedom from my inbox and it is so easy to keep it clean and organized.