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Mail totals

gnat on 2002-01-24T05:36:22

Earlier this year I used to track the number of messages I'd send. On a busy day it'd be 150, on a slow day 75. It's much less than that now I'm head-down bum-up in the PHP book and letting email stack up.



I ran some scripts over my archived outgoing mail and came up with a total of 15,673 messages sent in 2001. That's about 40 per day on average, no allowance for weekends, holidays, etc. I guess not every day is a busy day now :-)



--Nat

the magic number

ask on 2002-01-24T07:11:50

... how funny; I sent just about the same number of mails last year. =)

Actually, I think it has been around that for years because I remember thinking that it was a bit nuts that I sent a mail on average every 40 minutes.

:-)

Re:the magic number

gnat on 2002-01-24T09:55:24

That's scary. Fortunately it's not one message every 7 seconds. When it gets to the point where you send mail more frequently than you think about sex, then it's time to quit your job :-)

--Nat