Mail Statistics
Ok, after three days of not checking my mail I found the following mail in my inbox (ie: not filtered):
- 7 spam
- 4 messages telling me people have posted on my how to kill msn messanger article on ufies. Sadly it’s turned into a big long thread where stupid morons ask for hotmail address passwords.
- 8 messages telling me people have posted on other articles.
- 7 daily reports and cron messages.
- 7 mailer bounces or away messages bouned to the mail admin (that’d be me).
- 2 Big Brother messages about services that blipped off and back on for some reason.
- 6 messages from the Bugtraq mailing list that are slipping through because I haven’t bothered to set up the procmail to filter by list id instead of from address yet.
- 1 Apple Developer Connection newsletter that I never read anyway.
- 1 announcement from postfix that isn’t filtered yet.
- 4 actual new email messages.
So 4 out of 47 emails are relevant or I care about to actually read. I’m batting 0.085 right now. Sadly that’s only my inbox, I’m quite sure there’s about 80,000 mailing list messages as well.
Hey… that’s better than the day the Comic Book Guy site hit the newsgroups and livejournal on the same day. I think 2 of 207 or so emails were actually relevant.
Sounds like when I checked my email after not checking for > 10 days. After deleting 400 messages from my Inbox (routine cron messages, cvs emails that I don’t read anyway, lists I don’t read, newsletters I subscribed to but don’t read anymore, etc… there were maybe 15 things I had to actually deal with or found of interest.