How far is far enough?

If the email's are really really old then might as well delete them and start fresh.

I think for me, I'll delete all the old emails and start fresh. It fears me to read 250+ emails, too terrible Too little attention on the too old discussions and it's valueless to keep them. Have a great day and happy lotting!

I was away from mylot for the past two years, as I had a full time job and no longer had the time to come over here. I just deleted the emails, and the friends request. I guess for me, I don't really have any "real" friends here, so it's kinda okay for me. If people want to reach you, they can always reach you at your real email address or something I guess?

Often when I gain new friends, they go look at my old discussions and bring them up. I do not mind that at all.I ended up responding to a four year old discussion for awhile. I will not tell you how many old e mails I have, much more than you do. Of course a good number of them are also from Gather, and a few other sites. I am falling miles behind due to some work situations, so I have great sympathy. I do go through and periodically delete pages of e mails. There are some that I will always read, and others, it does not really matter, I cannot say anything relevant.

start with the new ones..it is better to start fresh..but if you have some extra time to catch up with the old emails then you can go through them..maybe there are responses that you have to respond to..specially if the one who responded to your discussion has a direct question for you and he/she is waiting for your answer..

hi reinydawn, i can relate to you. hehe even if i just get inactive for almost a month, still my inbox is flooded with mylot notifications from my friend's started discussion. it even reach about 300? haha sometimes i try reading them one by one and choose which one to reply but sometimes it also makes me feel tired just seeing them and so i just delete them all and start fresh. but in your case, if you like reading them all and respond to them then its okay as long as its not a hassle for you and you are enjoying what you are doing. i have a friend here who have the habit of clearing up his mylot notifications by answering them all and he says that whenever he finish it up, he feels some sense of fulfillment. so again its okay to respond to them no matter how old those discussions are as long as you have something to share and want to say something and of course you're enjoying! have fun and goodluck!

Sometimes when I have a big work load I fall behind for a few days and have a couple hundred emails waiting. I unsubscribed to the digest some time ago so I just get my friends' notifications. I used to reply to every single one of them--after all, they are my friends! But I'm more discriminating now that I have less time to spend. And I do delete probably a third of them after just a brief read because I either know nothing about the subject or it's one I don't care for. When I had an actual job, I created a folder for myLot and shuttled all the notifications I didn't get to into there. When I had time, I would go through them. I never really got caught up until I lost my job but I didn't feel strange about my late replies--a reply at any time is valuable. I got a reply just the other day from a year old discussion and I was delighted someone had seen it and thought it worth spending time on. Don't feel bad for late replies!

hi reinydawn I know the feeling as I was off for 11 months and just got back on the net around Dec of last year or Jan of this so had a ton of emails. my son did check in for me so I did not lose any earnings but he could not answer my email and boy did I have it. I had if I remember three hundred and 86 emails from every thing sites I belonged to and spam and also a ton of my lot responses.I am still not completely caught up with the old ones but do keep the later ones all commented on. I am slowly working through the old ones and will one day soon have thm all done. I would if I were you do the newer ones completely then do the old ones as you have times.

Well that will be solely depending on you. I experienced the same thing sometime ago too. Like i was away for a month and when i checked my mail its filled with tons of message from mylot hahaha. But the thing bout me is that when i dont like the topic i just kinda delete it, i just cant answer just bout every topic that my friends will be posting i just do what i can until my limit is up. When i said limit is up what i mean is when im tired already and i need to rest my mind from thinking bout alot of stuff hahaha. Thanks for posting this cool topic hey feel free to visit mine too and comment if you have something to share as well

i would just start fresh and then if you have extra time, go back to an old one now and again. i don't think anybody's going to hate you for not responding.