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• When will you answer your email? (Score:1)

  by cog (4665)

  sorting by subject helps a lot

  Clever :-)

  Meanwhile, when do you plan on reading (and answering) those 50 messages? (I sent you an email, but I don't know if it got through...)
  • Re:When will you answer your email? (Score:2)

    by Dom2 (2981)

    mutt [mutt.org] is exceptionally good at this sort of thing, thanks to its mini-language for retrieving mail information. In combination with the limit command the Delete command, it rocks for killing unwanted messages. And it's damned fast to boot.

    -Dom
  • Re:When will you answer your email? (Score:2)

    by schwern (1528)

    Its possible it got dropped on the floor while I was fixing things up. Resend to be sure.
    • Re:When will you answer your email? (Score:1)

      by cog (4665)

      Sent :-)
• Re: Some spam numbers (Score:2)

  by davorg (18)

  Do other folks see this much crap?

  Yep. Since January 1st I've got about 12,000 emails in my caughtspam folder. I really need to implement some kind of SMTP-time blocking mechanism.
• Re: Some spam numbers. (Score:2)

  by brian_d_foy (44)

  I get about 2,000 spam messages a day, which includes a lot of the same messages sent to every address for The Perl Review as well as my Stonehenge address and the Panix address that I've had for 8 years and don't bother to obfuscate or munge (here it is spammers -> comdog@panix.com -> I won't see your message though).
• Re: (Score:1)

  by Aristotle (5147)

  I don't think 960 ham messages in three weeks is a common figure. I probably get a fifth of that.

  Going by your numbers, though, you have a spam:ham ratio of 10:1, and I'd say that yes, that's pretty common. It's certainly close to what I'm getting.
  • Re: (Score:2)

    by vsergu (505)

    You must not subscribe to many lists. Schwern's number is only 45 ham messages a day, so you're only getting 9? I probably get 2000 ham messages in 3 weeks, maybe more, most of it mailing list traffic and some automated messages. Of course the vast majority of that gets filtered into folders and deleted with only a glance at the subject line. I doubt that 960 is out of the ordinary for geeks.
    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Aristotle (5147)

      I lost my perspective here, put as 45mails/day it's not that much. I don't have much email traffic, but I do have a huge blogroll. Newsfeeds have the advantage of being a spam-free medium so far.
• Here's my stats (Score:1)

  by cjcollier (1094)

  for i in ~/Maildir/.backup.2004.*/cur ~/Maildir/.spam.2004.*/cur ; do echo "$i: "`ls $i | wc -l` ; done
  /home/cjcollier/Maildir/.backup.2004.01/cur: 957
  /home/cjcollier/Maildir/.backup.2004.02/cur: 616
  /home/cjcollier/Maildir/.backup.2004.03/cur: 489
  /home/cjcollier/Maildir/.backup.2004.04/cur: 324
  /home/cjcollier/Maildir/.backup.2004.05/cur: 417
  /home/cjcollier/Maildir/.backup.2004.06/cur: 563
  /home/cjcollier/Maildir/.backup.2004.09/cur: 1872
  /home/cjcollier/Maildir/.backup.2004.10/cur: 595
  /home/cjcollier/Maildir
• 200 spam messages a day (Score:2)

  by bart (450)

  I get about 200 spam messages a day, but I don't have a domain of my own. This is just on my normal everyday email address. Just a few months ago it was "only" half that much.

  I fear that, when I go on holiday for a few weeks, my normal mailbox will just overflow. The sheer bulk of it is just too much for even the multi-megabytes mailbox I have at my disposal.