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10 ways to get a grip on your e-mail

May 18, 2007: 9:13 AM ET

If you get and send 100 e-mails a day, you probably spend an average of 100 workdays a year on e-mail. If you could manage to reduce the amount of e-mail you send and receive by 20%, you'd free up 20 workdays a year to use for other, more productive or fun activities, writes Anne Fisher in her May 17 column. Is your inbox overflowing? What do you do to keep your e-mail under control?

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