^ Important!! E-mail!!!

[bunsen_h]

When I receive E-mail flagged as "Important", it almost always means that the sender has poor time management skills and an inflated sense of self-importance.  The higher the supposed "importance" rating, the poorer the time management and the more inflated the self-importance.  (Does anyone ever mark a message as "moderately important", in between "normal" and "very important"?  Does anyone ever mark a message's importance as below "normal"?)  Only rarely is the message really more important than the rest of the real (non-spam) messages I receive.

Comments

[dewline.livejournal.com]

I'll try to remember to mark an upcoming message accordingly, next I e-mail you!

[duncanmac.livejournal.com]

I seldom (if ever) flag an email message as "Important."

Maybe it's because I am more likely to read that word as "importunate." :-)

[radargrrl.livejournal.com]

I have never flagged a message as important. Unless it somehow makes transmission of the message faster, which it doesn't, it's not worth my time and effort. The only messages I receive that are so flagged are usually from commissioned types who need their egos stroked again.

[henrytroup.livejournal.com]

I use "low" in the office (there are only three levels there, high, normal, low.) I use low for interesting tidbits and occasional jokes.

I use high very sparingly, generally to mean "read this one, don't wade through the fifty message thread."