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Can you go a day at the office without e-mail? Employees at U.S. Cellular try to do that every Friday. A policy implemented a few years ago gives workers a respite from the e-mail avalanche.

An E-Mail Vacation: Taking Fridays Off : NPR

A new survey found that more than a quarter of employers have fired workers for misusing e-mail and one third have fired workers for misusing the Internet on the job.

Over 50% of companies have fired workers for e-mail, Net abuse

Microsoft today acknowledged a problem that is preventing Hotmail users from accessing their accounts.
PC World - Microsoft Fixing Hotmail Outage

The second lengthy BlackBerry outage in less than a year has one consulting company advising clients not to rely solely on the popular smart phones for critical e-mail messages.

PC World - Business Center: Service Outage Gives BlackBerry a Black Eye

Google recently mistakenly disabled the Gmail accounts of some users due to an apparently overzealous attempt by the company to combat spammers.

PC World - Google Disables Some Gmail Accounts by Mistake

Gmail and Google Talk users can now chat with their AOL Instant Messenger buddies through the Gmail interface, Google announced today.

Gmail integrates AIM, adds colored labels | Tech news blog - CNET News.com

What you always wanted….

According to the Hindustan Times, Google plans to release an offline version of Gmail.

Offline version of Gmail in the works? | Tech news blog - CNET News.com

Below is a link to an insightful and very thorough article from Wired, explaining what goes into writing effective emails:

And for god’s sake, have a subject line. One that makes sense. Some of the most important emails I’ve received didn’t have a subject, and they almost fell through as a result. Don’t waste that space with words like “Important” or “Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:”. If the topic changes, change the subject line to match it. Remember that on recipients’ screens, your subject competes with a large number of others for their attention.

Write a perfect email / Wired How To's

From Lifehacker:

Stephen Colbert sits down with email etiquette author Will Schwalbe and dives face first into email etiquette, discussing the finer points of why drunk-emailing, all caps shouting, and irresponsible emailing can bite you in the ass.

Etiquette: Stephen Colbert, email assassin - Lifehacker

Hey folks, either reply, delete, or file away for later reply or reference- empty out your inbox, or you might end up like the folks who are declaring e-mail bankruptcy:

The supposed convenience of electronic mail, like so many other innovations of technology, has become too much for some people. Swamped by an unmanageable number of messages — the volume of e-mail traffic has nearly doubled in the past two years, according to research firm DYS Analytics — and plagued by annoying spam and viruses, some users are saying "Enough!"

E-Mail Reply to All: 'Leave Me Alone' - washingtonpost.com