Of course, the irony is that Slack was supposed to replace email…
The quality of email has such a low signal to noise it is becoming a waste of time to even check.
Off topic but related to communication. I wish voicemail could be an opt out thing, I haven't listened to a message in a decade.
I personally have only one or two auto-generated emails a week, at most, and all of those actually require my attention (expired credit card, etc). The other ones are either disabled or filtered away at the server level before they even reach my client (thanks to rules in Office 365).
> I wish voicemail could be an opt out thing, I haven't listened to a message in a decade.
Does your carrier not provide it? Here in the UK every single carrier allows it. If not, try the following USSD codes - the "cancel & deregister" ones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_forwarding#Mobile_(cell)_...
Set your outgoing message to state that you never check them and that people should @ you on Slack instead.
> I get so many auto generated ones I barely even check.
That's not emails fault, that's your fault for not using the tool properly. All clients have filtering and blocking options. If you don't want the mails, tell the sender to stop sending them.
A poor workman blames his tools.
You usually can turn it off I think. One of my colleagues' greeting states that you should _not_ leave a message, followed by 2 minutes of silence, to put off all but the most committed.
(Or maybe it's the way that people use #Slack. Which isn't strictly Slack's fault, but still, ...)
I sort of miss when we would have internal WG-specific mailing lists, which were archived, web-available and searchable. Anyone could join (almost) any group they wanted. It was threaded (of course), and people tended to write longer more complete responses (with no reaction emoji!).
Don't get me wrong - I love slack for the CI/CD stuff, and as a monitoring dashboard for all sorts of alerts that various parts of the various teams might be interested in, but it doesn't really replace the use-cases that email is actually pretty good at (in my opinion).