Useless Email Things
From Mike Beane's Blog
- Weeding out useless transmissions in a sample base from 280,000 emails via three accounts back to roughly 2006.
- I have a high degree of duplicates because I previously had emails from @mikebeane and @rabbibob forwarding to rabbibob@ and this is causing some difficulties and numbers skewing (not enough for me to worry about final totals)
- And I used the Remove Duplicate Messages add-on just now in Thunderbird: 36,000 duplicates (72,000 first+others). Removed those from the source.
- 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.
- I had to stop processing Facebook things for a bit. I could just delete them all, however there are a bunch of conversations and birthdates and... nostalgia... ugh
- As of right now, I have 20,000+ saved Facebook emails and 25,000+ emails I haven't dug into.
- The number of times I had to restart Thunderbird after moving 15,000 emails out of a 190,000+ folder was fairly high.
| 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 |
| tweets | 1335 | ||
| [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 | birthday | 4835 | that's going to require a lot of cake... |
| @facebookmail.com | commented | 20874 | between Aug 2020 and June 2021, the switch to Open In Messenger. Older ones have the comment inline. |
| 3441 | These are fairly useless - messages are not relayed inline anymore, notifications can be seen when you frequent the site. | ||
| 2459 | |||
| walmart | 2069 | This seemed less than I would have thought | |
| team | 2300+ | this was an interesting "from" term to look at. I kept five. I also found a google forward email request from BRJC to send emails from them to my account. Some of the email my rabbibob @ gmail . com has received has been... odd. If I go to NJ, I am thinking of requesting lunch from a lawyer firm that is a three-pete. | |
| discord | you missed messages | 1069 | |
| discord | "@everyone" (B) "mentioned you in" | 867 | |
| 365 | This seemed less than I would have thought | ||
| Fan Expo | 1160 | Boston, HQ, Shop, BostOn... | |
| Flickr Mail | 1041 | Group adds, activity, meh... finally broke under 100,000 emails with this squash. | |