2004 Email Response Patterns ---------------------------- `Back in 2003`_ I started tracking some numbers on my email use patterns, especially related to replies. I ran those old scripts on my 2004 mail and the numbers look pretty similar: * Of the 3236 emails I sent during 2004, 2094 of them were replies * My five most common response times in minutes were: * ten minutes: 40 times * thireen minutes: 36 times * sixteen minutes: 36 times * twelve minutes: 35 times * eleven minutes: 33 times * My mean response times was 22.36 minutes * My longest response time was 58.4 days. The only really meaningful number there is the median response time and comparing it to 2003, I'm a lot faster in general. My email volume by year is: ==== =========== Year Emails Sent ==== =========== 2000 1920 2001 1799 2002 1920 2003 3136 2004 3236 ==== =========== Looking at that table it's pretty easy to tell when I started working from home again. Here's the histogram for 2004: |email-response-times.png| .. _Back in 2003: /unblog/post/2003-07-17 .. |email-response-times.png| image:: /unblog/static/attachments/2005-01-20-email-response-times.png .. date: 1106200800 .. tags: ideas-built