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   Easy for me to calculate

   

   name withheld, Nov 23rd, 2005 @ 3:39am

   
   

   When I'm at work, I use two email systems:

   1. The mail server at work, and
   2. GMail.

   The reason for this is practical. I have no personal control over the mail server at work, so nothing I send out from my work email address is personal. Since most of my work email is within work itself (email to a colleague or a group of employees), this email address doesn't even get spammed.

   For those rare times that I need to send messages outside work, such as sending a query to my wife ("what will we have for dinner?"), I use GMail. GMail offers me 2+ Gb storage, if I need it, and all my friends know that sending me email to that address will get me whether I'm at work or at home. There are numerous GMail notifiers that work on Windows, Linux, OS X, so that I am aware whenever something enters my mailbox no matter what platform I'm using (Windows at work, OS X at home, very occasionally Linux).

   Now, I can look at my GMail activity (All messages) and see that I send out one or two a day during work hours. By the same token, I send out a dozen or so at work. This means that at most, 15% of my emails when at work is personal.

   Fortunately, my employer has a lenient policy on web use (feel free to read Slashdot, NY Times, Wired, etc. as long as you manage to get your REAL work done on time), so using GMail isn't forbidden. Other companies may have different policies, of course.

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   Re: Easy for me to calculate

   

   Anonymous Coward, Nov 23rd, 2005 @ 5:57am

   
   

   Agree with what you said. I use Gmail for all my personal email. I'd much prefer google having access to it than my employer. Not to mention the superior interface and remote management tools Gmail offers.
   
   Anyway, about 95% of my work e-mail is work related... the extra 1/20 being e-mails coworkers send me that arent exactly work. I send about 10 e-mails a day on my work account and 2 Gmails each day.... but I receive about 40 e-mails at work and about 5 at Gmail.... so I don't know how you'd want to calculate it.

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   Chris H, Nov 23rd, 2005 @ 8:44am

   
   

   I'm in the IT department at my job. When a user is terminated/quits/dies/etc we back up their email account in case we need something in the future. Most of our users have a ratio of 70% personal 30% business usage. My work email is strictly for work. Then again my job pretty much revolves aorund it and it isn't uncommon for me to seee 50+ emails a day.
   
   We don't really harp on users too much unless they are abusing it. It would take up too much of our time to try and police it anyway. Want to send a quick note to Grandma? Fine. Just don't start using it as your Ebay email address and selling all sorts of crap.

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   Joe Snuffy, Nov 23rd, 2005 @ 9:00am

   
   

   As the controler of all that is email, in my company, I have limited the max space for all of my users email to 10M. this help us to limit the junk that eack user keeps. The only users that have issues are the ones using it for personal email.

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   that sounds about right

   

   LoneWolf, Nov 23rd, 2005 @ 9:00am

   
   

   Well, I get quite a bit of e-mail and I use gmail and since I'm the one who does the IT work around the place I have the corporate e-mail forward to my gmail account which is especially handy since often times I'll be working on various systems and I don't need to go back to my personal machine to check my e-mail.
   
   I'll read my personal e-mail but not respond unless I feel its really urgent and can't wait a few hours till lunch break or when I get home.

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   No personal email on work server

   

   cycle003, Nov 23rd, 2005 @ 10:19am

   
   

   100% (ok, well at least 99%)of my work email is work-related. This was also the case for my last two jobs. I never mix work and personal email and even keep a separate account for important personal email.

   I find this is the best way to manage email and to isolate spam.

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   Money for nothing and my chicks for free

   

   SuperSlacker, Nov 23rd, 2005 @ 10:54am

   
   

   I run Thunderbird/Firefox on a USB drive thru a proxy server. Good luck figuring out how much of my worktime is devoted to work....

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   Friendly SPAM

   

   Josh, Nov 23rd, 2005 @ 3:48pm

   
   

   Its not external spam that's a problem. You can fix that easily enough with a filter. Its the internal CRAP that we constantly get from Human Resources, Management, and idiots too stupid not to understand what the "Reply All" button does. At least two thirds of my email at work is internal spam - the next morale booster (think Hawian shirt day), the current charity HR is begging for, email sent company wide that only applies to one department, daily lunch menus from the cafeteria that I'll never eat, the daily lost keys/cell phone email, and the person that replies to the whole building telling where they saw the keys/cellphone. I spend more time deleting that crap than actually using my work email for things I'm supposed to use it for.

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   Anonymous Coward, Nov 26th, 2005 @ 5:04pm

   
   

   joe Snuffy, is this a joke?
   
   How can people function without having *all* the email they have ever recieved in an easily searchable place (their email account).
   
   10M of space costs how much nowadays? Something like 3 tenths of a cent I think. How much are you costing the company by making people decide what to keep, saving it off to somewhere else, or inventing their own organization system?
   
   Having all of your historical email available is invaluable. Saving a few cents of storage space is stupid.
   
   And for the record, it is generally the emails from within the company that are large (attached documents). Personal emails will just have an embedded link. (Yes, company emails should just have an embedded link to the document, but nobody ever does it).
   

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