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My original blog - I have moved to http://shannonclark.wordpress.com so this remains only as an archive.
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Searching for the Moon
by Shannon Clark
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Tuesday, September 17, 2002
9 months, over 2000 messages sent
or, is my rate of emailing accelerating?
I should clarify, as of a few minute ago, my sent mail folder held 2029 messages, starting Jan 2nd, 2002. For all of 2001 that sent mail folder hold 2771 messages, so I guess I am roughly on the same pace?
This doesn't count messages sent from one of my two other main addresses, nor does it really fully count all messages I have sent, there are some that have not be "caught" by the sent mail folder - whole periods of time when I used another email program - for example.
But it does make me think, 16 messages sent just today.
And this counts messages I have sent to 30+ people as just "one" message - if I were to count all the various to's, cc's and bcc's in my messages, I suspect my yearly total is approaching at least 5,000 and perhaps even more - it is very common for me to send an email to three or four people at the same time, and I have sent plenty of emails to 30-40 people at time (and this counts a mailing list as just one address - that's 30-40 individuals).
In thinking about my year, I am certain that I have sent and recieved far more emails, far far far more emails than I have made phone calls, and probably far more than I have had in person conversations. Makes me think quite a bit. I know that I write a lot, indeed most people who send me emails are surprised by how quickly I respond to them, what they don't realize is that if I did not respond to them almost immediately, they would likely never get re-read or responded to - once I have clicked on the message and started reading it, it is generally the last time I will look at that message - though I will archive it for a long time.
I tend to only delete spam, and particularly large annoying semi-spam emails (mostly sales pitches - not pure spam because they have some reason for knowing me, but I feel I am unlikely to want to reach them again. My email folders now approach 494+ megs in size, and this is after having deleted and pruned probably a few hundred+ megs of emails.
On the one hand, rather frightening - have I really read all of this? Have I really gotten everything useful out of this that I could?
It does make me wonder, am I unusual in how much mail I get, and how much of it I keep?
9/17/2002 04:23:00 PM
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