• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldOP
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    3 months ago

    Oh.

    Yeah that might be a formatting artifact. Or it might speak to the fact that we just receive far more than we send.

    Many of the emails are digests or new articles. Like the NYT might send out a headlines email. And you just receive it, and aren’t going to respond, so it only gets a “from”; no “to”.

    There is a lot of just… Crap in there. At least two partial books. Random stuff from forums and threads.

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      3 months ago

      For emails I respond to there are roughly equal numbers. For emails I send people I deal with there are roughly equal numbers. Some businesses ignore me, so those would skew things.

      Maybe things will balance out once they release them all

      I seriously expect the Epstein files to JFK assassination level conspiracies which linger for decades

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        3 months ago

        I doubt you actually do, and I doubt most people do. The vast vast majority of email is sent and never even read.

        You are only thinking about email used as direct correspondence,.but how many random mass mailer emails have landed in your in boxes today? 10s? Hundreds?

        I have another figure I can send you, but let me get some coffee in me. It’s a frequency analysis in time.