Easy to compute.

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Since I started forwarding my POP accounts to a separate gmail account just before leaving Israel, it's easy to count precisely how many items of mail I received. Over the month of our vacation I received about 700 pieces of mail on those three accounts. About 150 of these found their way immediately to the trash (and of course the spam filters caught many more items than that). On my "personal" gmail account I received (again, after spam) approximately another 150 messages.

Of course much of this mail was from mailing lists to which I subscribe, and requires only cursory review. The number of "personal" letters I received, or items that commanded a response was considerably lower. Though I'll try to review much of the mail that arrived, nothing earth shattering is going to happen if I don't.

Perhaps the blog items that I ordinarily read should also be added into the final sum of mail received over the month of our vacation. After all, these "arrive" as RSS messages, and I try to review them as well. When I was able to find some late night time I'd glance at my RSS reader and pick and choose some items that I thought were either worth reading, or would be easy reading. I suppose that I reviewed about 150 items during the month, while I still have about 400 new items that I hope to at least glance at. Five weeks of newspapers are also waiting to either be reviewed or recycled, but that's (perhaps) a different story.

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Go to: It doesn't matter to them, or
Go to: But isn't that missing the point?, or
Go to: Get into my cloud.