I have an alternative approach (that is not incompatible with this one) that works well when one is not expected to deal with a lot of email not addressed directly to me: I only process email that mentions me specifically in the headers. Mailing list traffic of anything outside my most proximate working group is thrown into a pile of mail I read -- or don't -- at my leisure. Doing this, there's often not much mail addressed specifically to oneself.
This strategy probably has variable utility depending on one's role in an organization: triagers and connectors between groups may not be able to use this as successfully, for an individual contributors -- like me -- it seems to work.
This only works in organizations with reasonable email hygiene where:
* People don't expect you to respond to something where you are not in the To/CC list
* People don't use expanded email aliases as opposed to more typical mailing lists.
This strategy is not unlike how one deals with being subscribed to large mailing lists like, infamously, LKML (Linux Kernel Mailing List) people can just ignore stuff and read at their leisure.
This strategy probably has variable utility depending on one's role in an organization: triagers and connectors between groups may not be able to use this as successfully, for an individual contributors -- like me -- it seems to work.
This only works in organizations with reasonable email hygiene where:
* People don't expect you to respond to something where you are not in the To/CC list
* People don't use expanded email aliases as opposed to more typical mailing lists.
This strategy is not unlike how one deals with being subscribed to large mailing lists like, infamously, LKML (Linux Kernel Mailing List) people can just ignore stuff and read at their leisure.