By Sylvia Carr, 12 July 2007 13:11
NEWS
Feel overwhelmed by your inbox? It's not just your imagination - the number of emails you're receiving is trending upwards.
According to a recent poll of silicon.com readers, 33 per cent receive between 51 and 100 emails per day - a rise of 10 percentage points compared to a similar poll we conducted two years ago.
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The largest number of respondents now receive 51 to 100 emails, compared to two years ago, when the largest percentage of readers said they received just 26 to 50 emails per day.
While the portion of readers who receive more than 100 daily emails has remained flat at about 30 per cent, fewer people are enjoying light email loads. The number of respondents seeing less than 50 new emails each morning has dropped by 11 percentage points over the last two years.
The one bit of good news for the data deluged is that the volume of power emailers - those who receive more than 500 emails - has dropped to two per cent this year, down from four per cent in 2005.
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1. Richard Davies
Hmmm. It could be related to a couple of things.
1). These companies that sell your details onto companies that abuse things like your e-mail address etc. Data protection people should pull their socks up on this.
2). The fact that no one has the balls to stop spammers. Instead they just create black lists or now they want people to pay for a 'blue ribbons'...bollocks! Knock their doors down and seize the equipment in question.
3). E-Mail harvesters etc. they scour the internet taking addresses off pages.
4). People don't seem to configure their equipment properly which probably allows half of all problems to occur.
5). Block sending NDR's to external recipients. This is a form of spam now!
6). If you talk to various organisations related to the internet and e-mail...they all like power etc. but when it comes down to it...they are weak / slimey at best and between themselves can only blame each other when something happens!
7). Stopping viruses and malware / spyware is big business...where's the incentive for businesses to stop it for good!??? Anti-Virus companies for example are probably happy that we all get attacked! we then go buy their product and with a subsciption!!
2. Nick Cole
So are we all spending time talking via email and not doing much else or just deleting spam?
Does email make overall organisational productivity and achievement greater or less?
Or does it just look like it with people hunched over screens busily typing?
What about the time taken to compose content is that productive or do we spend as much time over an email as we would a letter?