Lost Projects

[Allison]

>
>Subject: Re: Lost Projects
>   From: Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk>
>   Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 15:44:58 +0000
>     To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
>
>On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 11:11 -0400, John Allain wrote:
>> This thought crossed my mind many moons ago offline,
>> here it is on-list.
>> 
>> If the amount of lost time spent reading offtopic and other
>> time wasting threads is were counted up
>> 
>> assume
>>    800 readers, 100 full-time, 700 part time
>>    80+ posts a day, 30,000 a year
>>    1 second to read a header, 10 seconds to skim a post
>>    1/3 of posts off-topic and other
>> 
>> then time wasted is
>>    100 x 1/3 x 30,000 x 10 / 3,600 ~= 2,800
>>   +700 x 1/3 x 30,000 x 1 / 3,600  ~= 1,900
>>    = 4,700  = 2 1/3 man-Years wasted
>
>Don't we all just look at the subject line and ditch messages that
>aren't of interest to us (OT or just not something that suits our
>individual tastes)?
>
>Plus, didn't you miss out days in the above calculation? Even assuming
>the ten second part is correct, isn't it:
>
>   100 x 1/3 x 30,000 x 10 / 3,600 ~= 2,800 hours
>  +700 x 1/3 x 30,000 x 1 / 3,600  ~= 1,900 hours
>
> = 4,700 hours = 196 man-days (approx 1/2 man-year)
>
>I think that's an order of magnitude less than time spent in the
>bathroom... :-)
>
>cheers

It's enough that I used a lightweight fast mailer that only gets headers
so I can mark them for deletion.  There is a fair amount of junk traffic.

At some point I plan to move to CCtech as I understand on topic is a rule
and the traffic lower.


Allison