5 Aug
2005
5 Aug
'05
5:42 p.m.
Subject: Re: Lost Projects
From: Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 15:44:58 +0000
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 11:11 -0400, John Allain wrote:
It's enough that I used a lightweight fast mailer that only gets headers
so I can mark them for deletion. There is a fair amount of junk traffic.
At some point I plan to move to CCtech as I understand on topic is a rule
and the traffic lower.
Allison
This thought crossed my mind many moons ago
offline,
here it is on-list.
If the amount of lost time spent reading offtopic and other
time wasting threads is were counted up
assume
800 readers, 100 full-time, 700 part time
80+ posts a day, 30,000 a year
1 second to read a header, 10 seconds to skim a post
1/3 of posts off-topic and other
then time wasted is
100 x 1/3 x 30,000 x 10 / 3,600 ~= 2,800
+700 x 1/3 x 30,000 x 1 / 3,600 ~= 1,900
= 4,700 = 2 1/3 man-Years wasted
Don't we all just look at the subject line and ditch messages that
aren't of interest to us (OT or just not something that suits our
individual tastes)?
Plus, didn't you miss out days in the above calculation? Even assuming
the ten second part is correct, isn't it:
100 x 1/3 x 30,000 x 10 / 3,600 ~= 2,800 hours
+700 x 1/3 x 30,000 x 1 / 3,600 ~= 1,900 hours
= 4,700 hours = 196 man-days (approx 1/2 man-year)
I think that's an order of magnitude less than time spent in the
bathroom... :-)
cheers