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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. Cached URL and stats extract by spamfo · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Site appears to have been slashdotted already
    Google cache here

    The stats

    Year Emails received Est. Error Est. Spam
    1997 4320 20% 2%
    1998 3996 20% 3%
    1999 6821 10% 5%
    2000 7580 5% 6%
    2001 6125 5% 7%
    2002 6497 5% 10%
    2003 13092 1% 37.6%
    2004 13889 1% 40%

  2. Executive Summary by mishmash · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Year Emails %In Error %Spam
    1997 4320 20% 2%
    1998 3996 20% 3%
    1999 6821 10% 5%
    2000 7580 5% 6%
    2001 6125 5% 7% 2002
    6497 5% 10%
    2003 13092 1% 37.6%
    2004 13889 1% 40% He now does more tasks by e-mail than he used to, so e-mail takes up more of his time - 2.5 hours per day. Quite where the interest is here I don't know.

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  3. Re:Back in the old days... by GNUALMAFUERTE · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Yhea, all nice and everything, but in those times you didn't have such incredible chances to do bussines arround the world like you have today!, for example, right now i'm in negotiations with this nice guy from nigeria to help him manage his bank account in the USA. BTW, that counts as consulting, right?.

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    WTF am I doing replying to an AC at 5 A.M on a Friday night?
  4. I've got that much email, with one difference... by DamienMcKenna · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I didn't keep my spam, besides that I've kept almost everything I've ever received or sent.

    Damien