Do you find yourself hitting the Send/Receive button? Sure, your email client checks the mail at least every 30 minutes but do you just have to hit that little button only to watch some spam roll into your junk folder? I confess. My name is Michael Ray and I am a compulsive email checker which would probably be acceptable if I actually recieved something but junk on a regular basis.
At the height of my motorsports journalism days, I received upwards of 300 messages per day and spent a few hours downloading my new messages upon returning from a race. Dial-up is definitely a problem when you have 1200 messages waiting to be read. After I gave up the "fame and glory", it took a while to acclimate to absolutely nothing being in my inbox and I don't think I've ever completely given up the addiction.
Working on the military base without access to my email client may provide the needed discipline to kick the email habit. I have absolutely no reason to log into webmail two dozen times per day when the only messages I receive are notices that I paid a bill, Russian girls wanting to send me their pictures, or the latest ad for Viagra. I'm kicking the email habit! I'm done!
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