E-Mail Overload

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How many e-mails do you get a day? And break them down into work/personal/spam, too.

This prompted by a realisation yesterday that at one point my first work-related email was the SIXTY-FIRST down in my inbox.

― Tom, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mailinglists 3- 20
Work -4-6
Personal Projects 12
Porn Spam 3
Regualar spam 3-10 Personal 16-25 (increased since Adam took an office job)
so total 40/73 if my math is right

― anthony, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

David not Adam.

― anthony, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mailing Lists - about 30
Work - about 10
Work Spam (i.e. whose car is parked...) - about 10
Personal - about 60
FT-Related - about 5
Spam - about 25

So about 140/day. Blimey.

― Tom, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I reckon I send more than I receive. Personal - dunno, I delete 90% straight away but about 30-40. Work - 10-20 unless I'm in the middle of something big like now in which case 30+. Other crap - only about 5.

Lucky I type quickly so can deal with them all.....

― Emma, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh, the vast bulk of my 'mailing list' section is actually 'personal' too I suppose.

― Tom, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A fuck of a lot.

― Jonnie, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My email overload, which isn't sweet and melodic like the Sugarbabes, is a consequence of mailing list crap. List people generally don't seem to respect other people's inboxes. The message likes of "Ha ha Derek I like your biro!" may seem important to someone at the time but really doesn't need to trouble my inbox. Actually why did I join the Derek's Biros mailing list? I think my point is lost... Maybe I should tell the Derek's pencil mailing list... Stop.

― Martin, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Work related emails? About once or twice a week.
Kindamuzik? About five a day (not counting the spam sent to the editor address).
Personal emails? About five or six a day.
Mailing list? I used to receive about three hundred a day (when I was on the Postal Blowfish list) but I deleted most of'em. Now? About 35 per day. I still delete most of them.

― nathalie (nathalie), Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A whole hell of a lot, fortunately the work person who sends most e- mails has been off this week so I haven't had many. I've usually got a couple of e-mail conversations on the go at any one time, plus mailing lists plus other stuff. Let's just say that at the end of yesterday I deleted 210 e-mails, and I save some that have things of interest in them.

― cabbage, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Work 10, Mailing lists 20-50, Personal 5-10, Forwards from friends 5- ish but dwindling as tend to reply to the sender referring them to urbanlegends.com's page about how the story of a woman escaping a rapist in the Bluewater car park just isn't true and nor is the one about KFC not being chicken. I am considering telling anyone who includes me in their list of five strong women who need an angel to watch over them to fuck off as well.

I only get about 1 spam email a week to my yahoo account - I'm a complainer and it seems to work.

― Madchen, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What is this list of five strong women who need an angel? This sounds good. I wish I knew five strong women who need an angel. Or five strong women. Or five women.

― Tom, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Much as I'd love to forward it to you Tom, I hit delete the minute I spot it. It's a picture of an angel that somebody has cleverly created using various punctuation marks accompanied by a nice poem. You blokes are so lucky - there are a zillion different stupid Strong Woman emails doing the rounds.

― Madchen, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Work: 2-3 (well, ok - not *work*, but e-mails about possible jobs) Personal: 2-3 Mailing Lists: 15-20 Newsgroup stuff: 50-70 (which I delete in big thread-sized chunks) Spam: 5-6

Total: 75-100 Stuff I need to actually read: 25-30 Stuff I need to respond to: 6-10

― Michael Jones, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

about 5-10. often less. do you lot do your mailing during work time? how do you manage to keep up with >100 mails and the multitude of ilx threads and still have time to lead lives? i don't mean any sort of reproach at all - i'm really curious because i feel like i spend too much time online as is.

― sundar subramanian, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

At the moment I reckon I get about 10 e-mails a week.

― jel, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

anthony - who is adam?

― Geoff, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

NO work-related e-mails @ all. About 50-75 mailing list e-mails, perhaps 1 or 2 personal e-mails, 3-4 impersonal personal e-mails (Monster updates, Gemm searches, etc.), and a couple pieces o' crap.

Of course, last week I rec'd about 20 of those "I've a file I want you to look at" e-mails. Same message, different names. Like I'm supposed to be impressed with an e-mail from a doctor?

― David Raposa, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My Boss. I was thinking of him and i made an odd flip.

― anthony, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Being very bored of a Friday afternoon I just counted. I have received 32 emails today that I have kept, only about 3 of which are personal. I have deleted countless more. I wish it was five o'clock...

― Emma, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Your wish has just come true.

― Madchen, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My PC clock says it's still 16:58. And counting...

― Emma, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i think that IM has cut down on a lot of my e-mail traffic. also this week i unsubscribed from a list that was averaging about 60 posts/weekday.

that said i probably traffic in about 125 personal messages a day. then there are the lists, and the spam, and the queries from editors wondering where the hell i've gone ...

― maura, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mailing lists: 10-30 a day
Work: 1 or 2 a week
Spam: 3-5 a day
Personal: since I stopped replying to people, about 4 or 5 a month< br>
I hate email.

― Otis Wheeler, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

hmm, prolly about 100 a day i guess, depending on the ebb and flow of mailing lists. Work ones (not including ppl from pakistan asking for prospectuses, WHY!!!) 10 a day tops, mainly enquiries, virtually none from co-workers, although i did actually get some pornspam at work today, which i think is a first. I must say ILE has led to a decline in one particular mailing list. my yahoo account is at least 60% spam, at least i've managed to get rid of the effing mp3.com ones now...

so mailing lists vs message boards: taking sides?

― carsmilesteve, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mailing lists about 20-40, personal about 0-3, occasionally more if I'm very lucky.

― Ally C, Saturday, 4 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one year passes...

140 a day?! I didn't realise it was as much as that Tom (Isabel, pleeeease, can Tom come out to play?) - that's a phenomenal amount. I get about 5 a day.

Replies - 2.
Uni Related - 2.
Unsolicited Personal - 1.

― Cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 11:26 (twenty-two years ago)

My new workplace has this mad policy that all emails in and out have to be printed out and passed around the senior staff. This mean I get the pleasure of sorting and printing gazillions of emails a day. Sometimes I have to read them to check they ain't personal, which makes me feel kinda creepy and nosey when they are....but it does mean I have an endless source of email jokes!

― smee (smee), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 11:46 (twenty-two years ago)

200 per day. About 50 spam, 2 or 3 personal, 2 or 3 work, the rest all mailing lists.

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 12:58 (twenty-two years ago)

My new workplace has this mad policy that all emails in and out have to be printed out and passed around the senior staff.

Looks like someone's got too much money to spend on paper. Jesus. Can we have some of that budget?

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 13:58 (twenty-two years ago)

On a working day I probably get 30 or 40 there, only a handful of which are spam. At home I think it probably gets over 100 a day, maybe 120. Lots from friends, via a friends-only mailing list, lots of spam, a handful from another mailing list.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 17:04 (twenty-two years ago)

God, we get SO MUCH spam at my job, because being an ISP, we have several very common and visible alias email addresses (for domain registrations and the like) that have existed for years, that the spammers attack them with force. probably 50+ a day, more on weekends interestingly. Loads of disgusting porn, Ive had to turn of HTML and show images in my email (yay Eudora). We have to use massive amounts of filtering (as well as SpamAssasin which is a bit useless) because the spammy email addresses also get a hell of a lot of important stuff.

I'd say all up I get 100+ emails a day. It sucks if you're away for a few weeks. Once I had over 3000 emails to download after a 3 week break. I gave up and deleted half of it off the server. Too bad if I'd won lotto haha.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 02:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Our email is completely cut off from the internet, so we don't get 'spam'. Still, in between all the updates and the office-all mailings and the other traffic it's not uncommon to get about 100 messages a day if not more. Depending on how many upgrades they do to the various systems and the different amounts of alias traffic it can get up to 200 on a crazy day. So whenever I'm out of the office, even for a couple of days, it can take a while to sort through everything. I'm lucky, I don't get a lot of people asking me questions very often. Some people come back to boxes full of stuff they actually have to do something about. Ugh.

Then I come home, and now that I've unsubbed from all of my mailing lists except the IMDb, I now get about 5/6 messages a day, tops. Maybe 3-4 are spam, one or two are personal, and one might be from some online store informing me about my order status, or from my bank or some other institution I've solicited the services of. Kinda nice actually.

― Millar (Millar), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 03:24 (twenty-two years ago)

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