This about.com article tells non-profits not to spam.

Email can be stressful. Left unmanaged, it’s the never ending junk mail pile. Imagine every email in your inbox as a piece of paper. If you have a few hundred or thousand in there, it looks like a nightmare. Imagine if that was your desk. People walk by, see your inbox stacked with a thousand sheets, you would get nods of sympathy. Worse, if you’ve got other people who are depending on answers from you, they know not to rely on you if you’ve got an inbox that looks like that.

Years before I started doing this, I decided what that I wanted a more productive, lower stress day. For me, it started with “Becoming an Email Ninja“ by Merlin Mann. That, coupled with healthy regular doses of David Allen’s “Getting Things Done”  got me to the dull, quiet email management system I have now – a welcome change to the situation that preceded it.

For anyone interested, here’s a cut-to-the-chase down and dirty explanation of how I’m doing this.
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