Aside from message storage and bandwidth consumption concerns, there is the more basic matter of individual employees being buried under more e-mail than they can possibly read. Layne said he receives about 200 e-mail messages daily. He has written a filtering macro that feeds them in to a Lotus Notes database that allows him to mine for the important stuff using full-text searches. However, that approach by no means allows him to read every message. Most of my problem is my own making.
People do that with e-mail.
The filtering and sorting capabilities of e-mail clients such as Microsoft Corp.'s Outlook, Lotus Development Corp.'s Notes and Eudora Pro from Qualcomm, Inc. have matured considerably in recent releases. Usage policies are a vital tool for keeping e-mail volumes under control, experts say, but they are not a panacea. Student chain letters are a problem. We have policies that prohibit them, but the students still send them. Ky. Rather than try to ban the practice, Poulias tried a different approach.