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Eisenstadt's Analysis Of 8 Years' Worth Of Email

Posted by timothy on from the bodyparts-all-fully-expanded dept.

Hylton writes "Thought this might be of interest: Marc Eisenstadt's saved every email he's gotten over the past eight years, including spam, and run an analysis of it."

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  1. GMail by GNUALMAFUERTE · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is pretty interesting (sadly i can't access TFA)
    Google should have such a program, there should be a preference in you GMail account, where you can allow /deny google to take stats out of your email. Many interesting information can be collected, like, for example, Ammount of SPAM / Legitim E-mail, % of each kind of spam (viagra, drugs, porn, etc), spam by countrys, % of Text / HTML email, and even other interesting stats not e-mail related, for example, language analisys, frequent mispells, toppics of interest by age, etc,etc,etc. I Would gladly allow google to make such stats, it can be done in such a way that no personal / sensitive information would be leaked.

    (Thinks about what has just said, and puts tinfoil hat on)

    ALMAFUERTE

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  2. Raymond Chen's Analysis... by ticklish2day · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Microsoftie Chen's analysis, slashdotted a while ago, has pictures too!

  3. If you think this article is about spam, read end by linuxbaby · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If you think this article is about spam, make sure you read it all the way to the end. It's not.

    He's questioning the entire technology of email as an effective way of communicating.

    Analyzes not just the spam-count in his email, but the work-time needed to respond to the non-spam emails, too.

    This is one of the most thought-provoking articles posted on Slashdot in a long time.