BlackBuried

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anu

on October 17, 2005 Comments (0)

BlackBuried : adjective : The act of instantaneously andsuperficially reading the content of recently arrived email on aBlackBerry or other type of handheld email device while engaged in someother activity, and thereafter neglecting to go back to read the emailmore fully at a more conventient time, rendering the email threadotherwise lost.
ex "Yeah, I think I remember seeing that email, mate, but I think I may have I BlackBuried it, sorry!"[memoria technica via Euan Semple]

I've had to train myself to mark anything important / interesting as unread so that I don't lose it. Missing the ability to flag emails for follow-up.

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