Tue, 04 Jan 2011
Outgoing Mail
I archive every e-mail message I have sent since April 1999. Today during making backups of this data I have decided to count how many messages I have sent each year:
| Year | Messages | Bytes | Bytes/message |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 2110 | 5082832 | 2408 |
| 2000 | 3211 | 9393052 | 2925 |
| 2001 | 4693 | 30317777 | 6460 |
| 2002 | 7122 | 22466804 | 3154 |
| 2003 | 7669 | 25649473 | 3344 |
| 2004 | 5664 | 19496614 | 3442 |
| 2005 | 5311 | 22807724 | 4294 |
| 2006 | 5375 | 22106651 | 4112 |
| 2007 | 4828 | 33458711 | 6930 |
| 2008 | 4575 | 28287830 | 6183 |
| 2009 | 4715 | 27140012 | 5756 |
| 2010 | 4727 | 35894517 | 7593 |
The variance is relatively high, but apparently e-mail messages are getting bigger with time (no surprise here), and I have sent less messages than I used to send five to eight years ago.
4 replies for this story:
Karel Zak wrote:
You're a bot :-) I sent 7314 e-mails in last 12 years.
Yenya wrote: Re: Karel Zak
No, I am not :-). It is just some people are used to communicating over e.g. IRC (such as in RHAT, as I have been told), and some use e-mail as a primary means of communication. I, for example, barely use Jabber, and do not use other messaging tools at all (ICQ, Facebook, IRC, etc.).
Bobby wrote:
Hi Yenya, do you count your private communication and the work one together? I am not able to sum up all my e-mails as I use many different addresses for different purposes -- I am rather curious about statistic of my communication. However (and without any data), I am pretty sure that the proportion of my personal e-mails is diminishing almost to zero in a couple of last years...
Yenya wrote: Re: Bobby
Both private and work (I use a single system for both types).