Philosophy:IT

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Only send messages when an issue needs to be resolved or risk becoming desensitized

Example: Email logs from a server should never be sent unless there is a problem!
Reasoning: Having "daily" email reports from a server is a bad idea as you will eventually become immune to seeing the reports and will eventually start ignoring the emails altogether. More so, as you start bringing more servers online, the number of status reports will become unmanageable. Instead of sending a daily email of disk usage, send out an email if and when there is low disk space. If you require status reports for archival reasons (aka future referencing) then make sure they get filtered into a folder.