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I can't believe that people react in this way ....
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A week without e-mail is more traumatic than moving house or getting divorced, say techies.

The findings come in a survey of information technology managers for the software storage firm Veritas which looked at how businesses have become dependent on e-mail.

Electronic mail is playing such a key role in companies that most people start to get annoyed after just 30 minutes without e-mail access, the study found.

But spare a thought for the techies in computer support. About a fifth feared for their jobs if they did not get the e-mail system back up and running within a day.

More than 800 techies in Europe and the Middle East were quizzed about the role of e-mail for the survey.

"E-mail has become far more than a communication tool, placing a huge responsibility on organisations to ensure that e-mail is always available," said Mark Bregman of Veritas.

"When information technology managers fail to keep the systems running, they inhibit the ability of the entire organisation to conduct business."

'Alarming deficiencies'

On the positive side, 99% of companies regularly back up e-mail and attachments.

But finding a specific message among thousands is trickier.

About half of the managers quizzed said it would be difficult to locate and retrieve a particular e-mail on the system.

And tracking down an old message could be virtually impossible. Only a fifth said they could recover an e-mail from further back than a year.

According to Veritas, the survey shows "alarming deficiencies in current e-mail system management and backup and recovery methods, placing businesses at risk and causing undue stress in the workplace."

And when something goes wrong with e-mail for a week, the experience can be more traumatic that moving home, getting married or divorce, at least for a third of those taking part in the survey.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3104889.stm

Memalvada

Isnt divorce supposed to be liberating?

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The_Dude

i'd gladly take a wife over email

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Loki

lol, i still check my email once every two weeks...

most of my friends know my email checking patterns, so they dont really mind if i reply a few weeks late

TwistedFate

Loss of my EMail is much more traumatic to me than my divorce was.

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Tandem

LMAO

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YourNeverThere

goodness, i would also take a wife over email anytime, but i guess i dont work in an office where my job depends on it. But still, half on hour without it doesn seem that bad really

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Fallon

I could care less about my emails. If I lose them, I lose them. If I lost my wife(which i don't have yet, will in 2008) then I believe I'd be crushed. While I'm at my work, I get so bored that I check my email at least 30 times a day, but if I lost it, so? I'd find something else to occupy my time.

Nisses

I don't think that's what the techies are saying. They mean to say that when the mail-server goes down, they are under more stress to get it back online, more pressure is put on them then when they would be going through a divorce...

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sipsake

Amen!

As one of those techies, the only thing I hear about faster than e-mail being down is when the internet connection tanks.

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Pragma

As an IT worker, I will say that when e-mail goes down, I kick off my shoes, lean back in my chair, and relax for the first time that day.

I don't find it troublesome at all, though my coworkers may. Those people are insane if they think it's "more traumatic than divorice."

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Stiltzkin

Ahh, so you're saying you still have room to care
Not anything against you personally, but I really dislike that expression. Why say that you could care less, when you really mean that you couldn't care less? I also really dislike the expression, "What's his/her face?" when trying to remember a person's name. Why do you even mention the word "face" when trying to remember their name? Stop it!
If I lose them, I lose them. If I lost my wife(which i don't have yet, will in 2008) then I believe I'd be crushed. While I'm at my work, I get so bored that I check my email at least 30 times a day, but if I lost it, so? I'd find something else to occupy my time. [/B][/QUOTE]
I usually check my hotmail account at least 10 times a day. I check my Yahoo account maybe once a day.

E-mail vs. a wife? Hmm... seeing as how I am mentally incapable of even dating someone that I don't truly love deeply, I can also safely assume that I would never marry someone whom I do not truly love deeply. This having been said, I can conclude that should I ever find myself married, I would gladly choose her over anything. ... I think this would also explain why I'm single, always have been, and forecast looks like an "always will be"

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