Email Stats

The last week, I've kept all incoming mail including spam to get a rough breakdown of how much email I get and of what category it is.

Here are the preliminary results:

• 70% is spam/virus/worm (837 per day - most of it caught by the spam filter)
• 17.5% is mailing-lists (211 per day - much of which I end up not reading)
• 10% is work-related alerts (CVS, bugzilla, build, etc - probably a quiet week)
• 1% is opt-in newsletters, announcements, alerts, etc

leaving the remaining 1.5% (124 messages) which is the core email I likely need to act on, reply to and which I will file in my "Keep" folder (currently close to 10,000 emails) once it's no longer actionable.