bkdelong

Jeffrey and Cameron are wimps. I have more unread email messages in one folder then they have total ;)

I jest, of course, but only about the wimp part. I last reset my statistics generator in Eudora 5.0.2 on Wed, 11 October 2000 07:40:06am. Since then, I have received 1,016,049 emails - an average of 5697 per day. I just told Kirky and she said that was impossible - no server could handle that much email traffic. Well, she's wrong.

Why the huge amount? I'm a researcher by trade and naturally nosy by habit. I want to know everything going on in all of the circles that I'm interested in. That includes Web technologies, Web development, XML, and, of course, Harry Potter. I'm too lazy to spend time browsing Yahoo! Groups or to check out archives from various mailing lists - so I have them all come to me. A year ago, I used to make sure all the mail in all my boxes were always marked as read. I gave up doing that when I hit 3K of messages a day.

While I can get up to 5 messages a minute some days, it is an interesting study of when various memes and breaking news reach which lists. Of course, I don't READ every single message. Since I've been doing the email thing for 7 years, I've gotten good at thread hunting. If a thread has more then 10 messages then I take a peak at the original note if the subject looks interesting. If one message gets multiple replies within 15min, then I also take an interest.

And I take FULL advantage of the filter-folder system in Eurdora - I have 999 folders and mailboxes and probably as many filters. I have almost reached ninja levels of filter-foo.

Anyway, back to the point. My advice to Cameron and Jeff - take full advantage of Eudora or Outlook mailter filters and their related actions. It's at the point now where it can even tell you who's sent you mail if you tweak it right.

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