As I get less and less interested in a large email list I’m on, I was uncertain about what I’d miss if I unsubscribed. It’s useful for hearing about some exhibits, questions about materials etc. I’ve met some very nice people there and have met some in person and had off-list email conversations with others.
For a long time I’ve had quite a number of filters that deal with various topics and, um, people, that I have no interest in reading whatsoever. That sounds so crass – sending people’s emails to trash based on who sent them rather than content, but there you go. Not that I never read them. Just that I read them from the convenience of them already being in trash.
Anyway, I got the idea one day to re-route all the list straight-to-trash mail to a new mailbox called listname_trash. There I could get a better look see at how much of the mail I wasn’t reading, for whatever reason. I vowed that when the percentage unread hit 50 I could unsubscribe without a glimmer of loss.
After doing the filter changes I got everything into one folder and it was sitting around 20 per cent. That was less than I expected. Another few weeks and many off-topic posts later, that number hit 43.26 per cent today. Guess I’ll be getting a lot of time back someday soon. Guess bean-counting pays off, eh?
