Thursday, October 13th, 2005, 2:12 am
E-mail Count
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am never too aure as to how E-mail should be counted (if it can be counted at all). There is a certain amount of traffic that can be quantified when it comes to E-mail, but not all E-mails should be equally treated. Points to ponder:
- Should spam be counted?
- Or spam that sank in a BoxTrapper and gets reviewed on occasions?
- Should mailing lists be counted?
- What about newsletters that anyone can sign up for?
- E-mails with multiple recipients?
- Uninvited E-mails that are not spam?
- Automated messages?
- E-mail one-liners?
- E-mails sent to deprecated accounts that are rarely checked, if ever?
I have reached the conclusion that if E-mail bulk is ever to be counted, there must be some weighting applied to the variety of E-mail ‘types’. I have never counted my mail, but I am somewhat fed up with people who brag about the quantity of mail (or spam) they get. I have recently read somewhere that there services that one can sign up for in order to increase the amount of incoming spam traffic. Amazing, is it not? More amazing is the fact that people may actually sign up and welcome the increase in junk. It’s a market niche, right?
