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Overwhelmed with email
Published on December 10, 2004 By Draginol In Life Journals

I get a lot of email. I mean I really get a lot of email. Approximately 1,500 email per day.  Of that 1,500 about 1000 of it is spam (or at least filtered out as spam).  Of the remaining 500, about 200 of it is spam that didn't get caught leaving 300.  Of that 300 about half of it (200) I either don't need to respond to or can optionally respond to.

That leaves around 100 email per day that needs to be responded to.  At 3 minutes on average per email, that would be 5 hours per day of responding if I responded to all of them. I usually spend 3 hours per day on email. Which means quite a few emails that I should respond to just don't because there's not enoug h time.

Yesterday I wrote 73 emails. Average length was 50 words. Each one unique (i.e. none of these are "Canned" responses).  Today, because I got so busy, I've only written 44 emails. Which leaves me with around 450 emails I need to look over with some uniknown number needing a response (I would guess probably 100 of them). In fact, in the time I wrote this blog, I received 4 email. 3 were spam, 1 was legitimate (needing a response).


Comments
on Dec 10, 2004
How many were Joeusers questioning when the servers would be up?
on Dec 10, 2004
I must admit one of your emails was a cry of help from my husband who I am driving crazy from my withdrawal symptoms from JU!

So sorry, Brad.
on Dec 10, 2004
Hey, I sent you an e-mail about these new penis pills....can you reply and tell me what you think?



-- B
on Dec 10, 2004
Approximately 1,500 email per day.


Whoa. I don't think I have gotten that much in last 2 or 3 years.

Good grief.....hire an assistant to filter it out for ya...and answer the petty stuff.


I agree. Your assistant could in least kill all the unwanted spam about your manhood size or investment, etc etc. You could even relax spam filters just a little bit to lessen chance of missing legitimate emails. Of course you would have to make a contract about privacy for this worker.
on Dec 10, 2004

Oh good, I thought that you were just ignoring me........


Then again, perhaps you are.......


I'll be your email assistant!  I'm in the market for a job....!

on Dec 10, 2004
Poor Brad...I remember the days when I'd email him and get a reply within 5 minutes When was that...back in 1999 I think See what fame does to you?
on Dec 10, 2004
I got it down to only 274 email left to read. The rest will have to wait..