Lost Projects - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

5 Aug 2005

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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:
  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 
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