Do you read your emails in order?

That's a good idea to print out some of your emails. My bf is not online and has no email address, so sometimes if I get a joke that I feel he will really get a kick out of I will save it in my email until he is around to show it to him. I guess I could just print these out and give them to him instead of waiting until he is around the computer. Thanks for sharing your ideas with us in this discussion. Have a good evening!

Thank you for your response in this discussion greeneyedlady. That sounds pretty much like the general consensus hear in this conversation. If I have a lot of email, I like to get rid of that spam asap. That makes it a lot easier to sort through the rest of the email and pick and choose what I want to open in what order at that point. Thanks again and have a great day myLotting!

Redsponge, what a unique screen name and an avatar to match. That's so cute. I'm going to have to check out your profile. It appears that you are a creative individual. That is one thing that I am not. Not very creative anyway. LOL Thanks for sharing the part of your day in which you check your email with us here in this discussion. And I hope you have a great day!

You speak of ever since you have used email. I remember the days when hardly anyone had my email address and I didn't get any spam. It was such a surprise when I would get an email message. And it wasn't even on a daily basis. I remember some of my friends only had access to email on the web tv at home. LOL I was one of the few who had access to email at work back then. Wow, how much things have changed. Thanks for your response in this discussion, and have a great day!

Sounds like a great method if it works for you minniemadz. I guess we all have our own methods of checking our emails and doing a number of other things on the net and even in our own homes. It is funny to see how many different ways there are to do such a minor task. Thank you for your response in this discussion. Enjoy the evening!

So which way do you read them, there Jafo36? Do you read them in the order in which they were received, which in most email programs would be from the bottom up? Or do you read them from the most recently received to the oldest? Just curious to see how many people do that? Thanks for you response in this discussion and have a good day.

Sounds like you have a pretty good method there sunshine4. Thanks for your response in this discussion, it is very much appreciated. I couldn't help but notice that great big number beside your screen name. 6069...wow. Looks like you have either been here for a while, or you are just really busy joining in on discussions here at myLot! Happy myLotting and have a great day!

I come here off and on between the other things that I do. Sometimes I may be active frequently, like I have been for the last week. And other times, I may go a couple of months only popping by here and there. I do enjoy the conversation and since I work for myself and by myself, it is nice to have people to talk to in the middle of the day. I think it would be very easy for me to just stay here all day if I didn't have to make a living. LOL Have a good day!

I have been with mylot for over 2 yrs. When I first started I was all over it, but now just get on here and there. It is a fun site.

I think most of us read and go through our emails on a case by case basis. Some days we may read more than we toss out. Other days we may not have much time, so we don't even get a chance to read all of the funnies that come our way. I don't mind reading jokes if I have time. And certain people I know only forward the good ones on to me, so I try to make an effort to read those first chance I get. Thanks for your response in this discussion and have a beautiful day!

Sounds a bit like what I do. Just maybe in a little different order. I usually don't like to open the junk mail, as I am afraid of getting a virus. But sometimes I do just in case, if I'm not sure what it is. The main reason I do this is because I once won $100, and I almost deleted the email. I thought it was just one of those junk emails that you get saying that you won. It turned out I really did win. I hope I haven't deleted any other winning notifications. LOL Thanks for joining in on the discussion, and have a good evening!!!

Oh wow, how awful would it have been if you had deleted it! I usually can tell if something is junk - for example if I have someone telling me I have won something when I know I haven't entered anything, then I delete immediately!

It is great to hear that you won it from a survey website! I always wondered if anyone ever won from those prize draws - I always seem to get entered into one of those when I don't 'qualify' for a survey and I used to think - 'Oh great, another prize draw entry'. Looks like I should keep my hope up though!

I hear ya, and I know exactly what you are saying. If I went through mine one by one, and in order, I could spend days on just one days worth of emails. I receive a lot of good stuff, and a lot of spam, and now and again I get notes or jokes from my friends. Plus, I'd be reading the invitations for cookouts and such, sometime after the cookout already took place. LOL Thanks for your response here lumenmom and I hope you have a great day!

It sounds like you are a pretty organized person dlr297. Not too many of us on here can actually say that, at least when it comes to reading our email in the order in which it was received. I try to have a method to my madness, but sometimes there is just no hope. Thanks for your response in this discussion and have a great day!

I have yet to determine how to sort my emails by sender. Actually, I hadn't ever even thought about it. Although, sometimes I will search my email for a specific word or phrase which may include an email address or subject. Then the program will only show the ones with those letters included in the email address or subject line. Interesting, I think I will see if I can do this with my email program. Thanks for the idea and thanks for responding in this discussion. Have a great day!

I just checked. You're right. Mine does have that option as well. I guess I learned something new today, thanks to you Canellita. I appreciate your help. It is always nice when people here on myLot share their knowledge with one another and we learn while we earn. Thanks again and have a great day!

Glad to be of some assistance!

Holy Cow! 9,000 emails...that's a lot of email. Mine only holds 999. After that anyone who sends me an email will get a message back that my inbox is full. This gives me great reason to keep a close eye on it and remove any unwanted emails first chance I get. Good luck to you in making it through all of those emails. Thanks for your response in this discussion, and have a nice day!

I find it very amusing how everyone seems to have a different method to checking their email accounts. I, myself, think that I probably hop and skip around mine more than I actually have a certain type of method. And it changes from time to time, just depending on whatever else I may be doing on the internet at the same time. Thank you for your response in this discussion. Have a good day myLotting!

the word " white list " I mean is email from those in my email address book.

I had a feeling that it meant something to that extent. I had just never heard that phrase before. I guess it should have been very logical, it is basically the opposite of putting someone on a black list. :) I'm just a little slow times I guess, LOL. Thanks for the explanation and have a great day!

I am not familiar with that phrase, white list. I would take it that means list of good email or perhaps email from people in your address book. I would be curious to find out the exact meaning of that if you get the chance. I think that opening the email in order of importance, which is different for all of us, is pretty much the general consensus here in this discussion. Thank you for your response, and have a great day!

It was more annoying than painful. I had problems with my eyes, and to remedy the illness, I had use drops that blurred my vision. So no emails. Now everything is clear. Thanks for caring .

I think that most of us read them in order of importance, that's the order that we read them in. It's in order, just not the order in which they were received. LOL Thanks for your response in this discussion. I am sorry to hear that you were ill, especially for such a long amount of time. I hope all is well with you now. Take care and happy myLotting!

It sounds like you have a pretty good method of going through your email idowrite72. You too, have a unique screen name. Sometimes I wish I could be so creative. I have been using the same screen name for over a decade now, and just kind of stuck with it. Thanks for your response in this discussion. I hope you have a great day!

Thanks for sharing your story of how you acquired your screen name. I think it's great that you have had yours for so long also. The only other screen name that I use is one that I use when I write articles. :) I use the screen name Monty Travels, which started when I was writing articles about different trips that I have taken. I really enjoy traveling, and that probably should have been one of my first screen names to begin with. Thanks again and have a wonderful day!

I have had the same screen name since I've been online, over 10 years, myself. My daughter helped me think of it. When I first got online and was in chat rooms, which I don't do anymore, everyone would ask me what I write! I really don't, but I like to write and I had penpals for years and was always writing to someone OR working on the work I had brought home from my teaching job, so my daughter thought of idowrite. The 72 is the year that I graduated from high school.

I hope you are getting paid for some of those emails. Wow, that's a lot of emails for one day. If you read them all, that would surely keep you busy. I'm a little late, because it looks like you've been here for at least a little while, but let me take this opportunity to send you a great big WELCOME to myLot! Hope you enjoy the discussions here as much as I do. Thanks for your response, and have a nice day!

Thank you for your great big Welcome!!! I do get paid for a very few of them,but most of them I just delete. Well, I may be kinda new here, but yesterday I started a discussion on smoking, and there were some pretty hot debates going on...WOW! Didn't mean to stir up the pot like that!!! LOL, thanks!

Hey there UpsideDownPineapple, and thank you for your response in this discussion. Yep, I'm not sure that anyone reads them in the order in which they arrive anymore. And, my email box pops up in the opposite order, so if anything that's how I scan them. But, not exactly how they are opened. Plus, if I am looking for something in particular, I will search for that first. Thanks again, and have a great day!