September 25, 2003, 04:40
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How often do you check your email?
I check mine every day, usually more than once. If I send an email I expect a reply within 24 hours.
Seems like some of my rl friends may not check theirs for up to a week and often longer. wtf.
How can they function without checking their email more often.
I guess this topic is also a reflection on those people we know who aren't as computer literate or obsessed as we are. What on earth do they do with their time? 
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September 25, 2003, 04:41
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Don't know. I opened this thread just after checking my email for the 19th time today.
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September 25, 2003, 04:44
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I let my router check mail every 150 seconds and my computer rings, when mail arrives. That makes for a good PBEM pace . That makes 576 times per day.
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September 25, 2003, 04:46
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The real email with the PBEM games and stuff, every 10 minutes or so.
The hotmail junk address, every couple weeks.
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September 25, 2003, 04:48
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King
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Hmm, turns out i'm the amateur. I'll check mine between 5-10 times a day but didn't want to put that in the original message for fear of being shown to be a freak. 
All clear now though.
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September 25, 2003, 05:00
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I check my personal email 7 or 8 times a day I suppose.
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September 25, 2003, 06:45
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hand ful of times a day at max, sometimes I forget it
it's not like emails are the most important of all media for me, most communication I do on messengers today
used to get and send like 10 mails a day before I had ICQ, mostly to/from Apolytoners. then I got ICQ.
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September 25, 2003, 07:28
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Somewehere between 1 and 20 times a day (depend if Iīm home or somewhere other during the day)
but there ae also times where I check my eMails just every couple of days
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September 25, 2003, 08:08
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2 or 3 times a day.
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September 25, 2003, 08:21
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I believe that people waste too much time with compu....
Excuse me, I just need to go and check my email.
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September 25, 2003, 08:51
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I check my email once a day, at 4:15 PM CST.
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September 25, 2003, 09:18
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If I had to put a number on how many times I check my email, I would have to say over 15 times a day (but then, I've never kept track of how many times I check).
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September 25, 2003, 09:24
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If I remember, around 5. But sometimes, it stays unchecked for a couple of days! 
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September 25, 2003, 09:37
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Originally posted by Azazel
. But sometimes, it stays unchecked for a couple of days!
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you luddite.
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September 25, 2003, 12:57
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Let's see:
auto-check each 3 minutes (In the time my computer is turned on), this makes 20 times per hour... about 8 hours a day (on average), will make it 160 times a day... 
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September 25, 2003, 13:00
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we used to have auto check and internal server save too
the downside was I couldn't check email from other computrs because it was always stored on the server.
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September 25, 2003, 13:18
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My regular pop accounts are checked automatically every few minutes and I get a symbol for new mail.
I check my hotmail account every couple of days unless I'm expecting something.
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September 25, 2003, 13:30
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I check my hotmail account 2-3 per day though I never check my PMs here at Apolyton unless the front page tells me I have new mail.
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September 25, 2003, 13:32
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Since I have been looking for a job and using that as well as the phone for my job sreach I check my email several times a day during the day, but not at night.
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September 25, 2003, 13:37
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Originally posted by Verto
I check my email once a day, at 4:15 PM CST.
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a schedule Nazi
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September 25, 2003, 13:52
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Once or twice a day, don't care if I'm away for even several days. Never bothered to get fetchmail to work :/
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September 25, 2003, 14:45
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At work, two or three times a day, even though I've only ever had about 5 emails there. At home, hotmail tells me when I get new mail, and the pop3 accounts maybe hourly.
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September 25, 2003, 15:01
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You all fell for it! "Checking email" is slang and stands for the same as "Killing a kitten".
That said, I'm off to check my email
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September 25, 2003, 15:16
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I thought it was slang for "eating bannanas?"
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September 25, 2003, 16:04
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Since I usually donīt get many messages I check every 1 or 2 days.
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September 25, 2003, 16:40
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Outlook checks my mail every minute, when I'm online, so that's not even a question people should ask me
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September 25, 2003, 17:08
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Originally posted by Carlos113
Since I usually donīt get many messages I check every 1 or 2 days.
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I never get many messages either, which makes it even more frustrating since I check it quite often.
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September 25, 2003, 17:10
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Outlook checks my mail every minute, when I'm online, so that's not even a question people should ask me
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Same here, but I turned the sound off on the computer so I didn't get the annoying "bling" everytime someone sends me something... So, I check it about once an hour. That way ppl think I am doing something and not just waiting for e-mails to reply to.
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September 25, 2003, 17:21
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Twice a day
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September 25, 2003, 19:40
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Maybe once a week if that often, the Yahoo junk account not so often, maybe once a month.
I don't play PBEM, I don't email correspond with any freinds of mine, pretty much when I do get on the email account I just delete the stupid notifications from Apolyton  .
That's all.
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