15,382 items, and counting..or rather counted

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Posted by Jim on Aug 7, 2008 58 views

When I left for my first summer training at RTC Great Lakes, I started leaving my deleted items folders alone. On all my mailboxes. Today I finally had to empty them because I was hitting the 1GB mailbox limit size on one of my mailboxes. Yes one of them. And that is all actual email. I delete junk mail and spam immediately. Why keep all this email? I wanted to see how long it would take me to get all caught up after being out of the office for a few weeks.

I am up on all my work, current on my reporting, up on all my deliverables and doing fine on submissions of intellectual property. I am still behind on all my blogging, could be doing a lot more on projects, I am way behing in sit ups, push ups and miles walked, jogged and run. And I have not updated all of the exercise and activities I have done on the Presidents National Fitness Challenge website in all that time. Holy cow, I might be up for a new award level

But after spending almost 8 hours last night doing training courses, videos and reading documents, I am cleaning out my deleted item folders, and flughing out a total of 15,382 emails. So in case you were wondering how much email I read each day, go back to when I left to go to RTC Great Lakes, which was June 12th, 2008. In these 56 days, I have read an average of 385 emails each work day, 275 each day. Hmm, lower then 500 I normally quote. How did I get so low? I guess if I counted the spam I get every day it would have been much higher. Of course the spam would have not added to the mailbox file size as quickly given its excessive amount of hyperlinks and worthless text. But it would have upped the message count by a large number.

I have had to delete a lot of emails due to their nature. This number does not count email size or thought put into them, and the number of emails I have sent is not in that number. I might have to do this test again on my next vacation.