Advice on once a day message delivery setup

Nick Bright nick.bright at valnet.net
Mon Jun 13 23:55:36 UTC 2016


On 6/9/2016 12:36 AM, Marc Stürmer wrote:
>  Zitat von KT Walrus <kevin at my.walr.us>:
>
>> Just looking for any advice… I kind of like the idea of modeling my 
>> mail service after the US Post Office where the mailman delivers new 
>> mail once a day rather than like Twitter/Facebook where messages are 
>> posted in real time to encourage users to monitor their boxes 
>> throughout the day.
>
> This is not going to work. People are used and do consider email 
> delivery instantly to themselves, that's what they expect.
>
> Breaking this thing will only give you a major disadvantage in your 
> field of competition and some major headache, as well.

Several studies have indicated that this actually improves worker 
productivity and reduces stress, there could be very valid use cases 
(mostly in business) which this may be desired.

http://www.fastcompany.com/3040361/work-smart/the-science-behind-why-constantly-checking-your-email-is-making-you-crazy
http://www.fastcompany.com/3030999/work-smart/what-i-learned-from-checking-email-only-twice-a-day
https://cogzest.com/2015/06/try-as-you-might-does-checking-email-less-frequently-reduce-stress/
http://www.forbes.com/sites/francesbooth/2015/01/23/stop-checking-email-so-often-and-reduce-your-stress/#1f90ad1f33f1

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