I’m filtering out the Bacn

Most of us have a problem with bacn in our email inbox. Spam is easy to deal with. It’s always unsolicited emails that we never want. Most email systems (like Gmail) have a great spam filter so that you never have to see it.

What about all of those emails that you technically signed up for but you don’t always have time to sort through. If you’re popular on Facebook or MySpace I’m sure that you get tons of these emails daily. If you signed up for regular newsletters (my favorite is the Snopes update ) they tend to show up at the most inconvenient times.

Basically, bacn is email that you want to get around to reading . . . eventually. The term ‘bacn’ was first coined at PodCamp Pittsburgh 2 last August according to the Wikipedia article.

I set up filters on Gmail that allows it to recognize bacn by using the “from” address on the email. I told Gmail to skip the inbox and send it right to the Bacn label. That way it’s there for me to read later when I have some free time. Check out the image below to see what I’m talking about. Ah, the sweet sight of an empty inbox . . .

-derekmartin81