Eisenstadt's Analysis Of 8 Years' Worth Of Email

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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mod u4

[Anonymous Coward]

which don't use the mod points and 7000 users of (7000+1400+700_)*4

[anti-slash] celebrate the firing of Michael

[jihadi_celebration]

For public distribution (13 Feb 2005):

Anti-slash confirms: Slashdot's editors are dying.

In another devistating blow to slashdot's editors, it was learned that Michael was fired as an editor on slashdot. We at anti-slash are proud to have brought about this partial victory by our unrelenting jihad of bringing their injustices to light.

The specifics of this case are documented in this post: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=138099&cid=115 70041
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I got this from a verified source who's in the know:

Long story short, michael was canned for his abusive and egotistical personality.

Rob's been building a list of complaints by users about michael's abusive patterns but he never acted on it. Well, michael managed to bitchslap one of Rob's old college buddies' accounts along with a couple of paid accounts, word eventually filtered down to Rob, and he had kittens. He convinced michael's OSTG manager to track him down and drag him into a conference call.

Rob laid down the law and started reading off complaints and michael raised his voice, saying that if Rob had a personal problem with him that he didn't need to go over his head and involve his manager in it.

During the shouting match, michael's editor flag was revoked. He was in the admin area at the time and he noticed.

At this point he went totally ballistic and started screaming about how this was why he moved, to get away from "arrogant elitist bullshit". (this is a direct quote.. michael actually did move from New York to Canada to protest George W. Bush's inauguration in 2001. Andover kept him on since it was only an all-remote job anyway.)

michael's manager ducked out of the call to page (read: wake up) Hemos (overseas on business) to three-way him into the call, to try and calm everyone down.

There was some more shouting, and michael's manager told him that things aren't working out well, and that he's going to recommend that his employment be terminated.

michael just hung up, and that was the end of the call as well as michael's employment with OSTG.

This can be confirmed by visiting http://slashdot.org/authors.pl. Michael is not listed.

Fact: Slashdot's editors are dying

Re:Indeed

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, I took a big shit today. Palaces have been built with softer bricks and stood for thousands of years. My fecal production for today was truly awesome.

Furthermore, before I dropped my load, I weighed myself. Post-defecation, I was down 5 pounds. That's right - I dropped a 5 lb. baby in the pool. For fuck's sake, I rule.

By the way, you're an asshole. Go fuck yourself and your stupid email address fagmaster.

sincerely,
Terry Bradshaw

Have you Meta Moderated recently?

[Offtopica]

What the fuck is up with Slashdot? I meta-moderated this morning. I meta-moderated again at work (logged in as the same account). When I get home: Have you Meta Moderated recently? Regular Meta Moderators are more likely to get mod points.

Why, yes, I have, and no thanks! This account has meta-moderated twice today already! Leave it alone!

Today, you have 10 moderations to meta-moderate.

LIES! Today, I have 30 moderations to meta-moderate!

"The system is broken" is too dramatic. The system just sucks.

xox,
Offtopica

Re:Spam

[Anonymous Coward]

I like my women like I like my coffee: ground up and boiled.

I bet you think that's funny, don't you, you sick fuck?

spam? Whats spam?

[Legodude522]

uhh get gmail, i didnt even know i had spam until i checked the spam folder

Re:Apparently the analysis is still running

[rhyno46]

HAHAHAHAHAHA! Holy Shit, I get it! Slashdot crashed their webserver because everyone's trying to hit the same server at one time. Genious! I just can't wait to get to Slashdot everyday and see the original thoughts, and jokes, that such a wonderful community provides!

Re:Indeed

[mattspammail]

what is this "dial-up" of which you speak? Huh? Wha? Not to sound snobby here, but WTF?!!!! What is this? 1998?!!!

Re:If you think this article is about spam, read e

[eddeye]

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

In other news, political analysts rated President Bush's comment that "Water is wet" the smartest thing he's said in a long time.

<math nerd> The amount of information contained in linuxbaby's comment can be described as the least member of the set (0,1]. </math nerd>

Re:Spam

[Anonymous Coward]

rim job, please!