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If
you’re like me, you find yourself wondering how in the world some
people “deal” with the rediculous amount of documents that exist in
their in-box!

I like to keep my in-box nice-n-clean. I think everyone else should
too, but I don’t have a good reason why. Until now! And the
justification I was looking for came in the form of everyone’s favorite
term: performance improvement!

I came across this article from IBM: Best practices for large Lotus Notes mail files (IBM.com, 10.11.2005) which is really written to give Administrators some idea of how to better control the cost of hardware that results from ever-growing mail files demanding more disk and processor resources.

There was one part of this (very long) article that screamed out to me. Check out Fig. 5 (below) which shows the response time end users experience based on the number of documents in their in-box. The results of the report stated:
“Keeping the Inbox at 1000 or fewer documents resulted in dramatically faster response times to end users…”

And there we have it! Proof that users should keep their in-box clean. “Who has 1000+ in-boxes,” you say? You’d be surprised!