One way to reduce email stress: Re-invent the mailing list

The average person receives upwards of 150 emails a day, and it often seems like no amount of tagging or filtering can close the floodgates. One major source of stress is the never-ending conversation threads made possible by group emails. Mailing lists can be a fantastic medium for substantive discussions, but often they deliver too much of what we don't want and not enough of what we do. Believe it or not, such tools have barely changed since the pre-Internet days of Arpanet 40 years ago: You either opt in or opt out, you get dozens of irrelevant emails, and the views of a few loudmouths usually end up drowning out the rest. In an age of Facebook and Reddit, users expect a sense of control over how they consume their content, and yet that control and personalization often doesn't extend to their own inboxes.