Ask HN: When did you lose control of your inbox?

I didn&#x27;t.<p>Or rather I took back control. I have now 2 email addresses - one for humans, one for the rest.<p>And I systematically unsubscribe from every email I don&#x27;t want to receive (gosh I miss Europe for that), I delete everything that I have no reason to keep, and I archive anything that needs to be kept.<p>It demands a lot of effort at the beginning. But now my inbox is useful again.

Year 2000. Ended in a support role (think SRE 20 years ago).<p>Whe had a shared email account for the whole support group.<p>We received about 100-150 emails daily from people and automates processes...<p>... And nobody was allowed to archive or move mails to folders.<p>Almost 20 years later I simply don&#x27;t trust email for important stuff. If I have to email something important I want to talk with the person, too.

When they wrestled that mail-server from under my desk in my apartment.<p>(No they didn&#x27;t; it&#x27;s an imaginary future doomsday scenario).

When I stopped using a combined inbox for life and work.

When subscribed on different mailing lists...