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Weeding out useless transmissions in a sample base from 280,000 emails via three accounts back to roughly 2006. | Weeding out useless transmissions in a sample base from 280,000 emails via three accounts back to roughly 2006. One downside of my approach is that I'm not capturing a high level count of things before removing, which skews some of the output numbers as we go: if an email is found earlier by a search term in removed, it can't be counted in subsequent searches. | ||
Revision as of 10:26, 29 May 2022
Weeding out useless transmissions in a sample base from 280,000 emails via three accounts back to roughly 2006. One downside of my approach is that I'm not capturing a high level count of things before removing, which skews some of the output numbers as we go: if an email is found earlier by a search term in removed, it can't be counted in subsequent searches.
| From\To | Subject | Count | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| [email protected] | 12265 | Useless Twitter Emails | |
| [email protected] | check out the notifications you have on Twitter | 4719 | |
| [email protected] | is now following you on Twitter | 200 | boy, that's sad |
| [email protected] | 832 | ||
| % | 9239 | there were ten legit emails in there, seven of which were really not interesting | |
| $ | 11964 | I kept 46 due to nostalgia. 200 or so were from marketplace or craiglist interactions (man are those painful). Newegg, Priceline, and the like... 1000's of them. | |
| "iron force" | 2100 | some game I played | |
| promo@ | 3915 | I had meant to go @e.newegg and @newegg.com, but promo hit all new eggs stuff. Spiffy! | |
| @facebookmail.com | added you | 230 | |
| @facebookmail.com | wrote on your wall | 400 | |
| @facebookmail.com | invited | 689 | |
| @facebookmail.com | sent you a message | 1224 | "sent you a message." marks the start of the OPEN IN MESSENGER crapfest. "*... on Facebook" contains the actual message. |
| @facebookmail.com | replied to a thread | 100 | |
| @facebookmail.com | suggested | 400 | |
| @facebookmail.com | commented | 20874 | between Aug 2020 and June 2021, the switch to Open In Messenger. Older ones have the comment inline. |