"notifications you want, just not right now."


How about 'notinows' or 'notnows'?

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How about 'latrz'

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Is a new buzzword necessary? I think most people already have a word for low priority e-mails. It's called the Trash folder. :-)

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I'm totally a fan of bacn. Why? Because there's a word for spam. What would you not call that? There wasn't a term for that a while back. And now there is. See? If I say spam, you don't think a canned meat product from Hormel.

That's all. : )

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Sure! Why not?
Like said above. There's 'Spam' and countless other terms.
bacn works for me.

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The problem with bacn is that if it is not important enough to deal with right now, it is trash and you know you won't get back to it. So, as stated above, we already have the word trash.

And the reason this is different from the reason for the word spam is that there are ways to deal with emails you know you should just delete but don't. You can star it, check, shunt it to another 'later' folder, or any number of other ways to put off throwing it out. But spam needed its own word because it needed a new action, not just deleting it, but identifying it as junk mail to strengthen the automatic junk/spam filter.

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Yeah, but who wants to eat cold bacon?

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But it's not trash. It's "Jon is now following you on Twitter." It's "Jessica wrote a note on your Facebook wall." It's stuff that requires an action. Just nothing pressing.

Just for clarity.

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I get weekly ad emails from some of the online stores I bought stuff from -- Meritline, Buy.com, etc. -- which actually do have really good bargains from time to time (FAR or cheap + free shipping), so I stay subscribed. But sometimes, I just want read "real" email, e.g. not what they're calling "bacn" here. I'm not sure we need a new term -- if anything, a term describing what I just said, the email that's most important, would be more helpful? The web 2.0 version of "pork" would be "prk", right? Not as obvious as bacn, though, plus "pork" has some bad connotations. Ham --> hm? Don't want to overload that one. I guess it's back to the drawing board...

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I think we do need a term for this kind of communication, I just don't know what Bacn is it. :-)

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Say NO to Bacn, say yes to scrapple!

http://www.mrbaconpants.com/bacn-needs-to-be-stopped/

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Now thats classic. AWESOME.


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