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My school wants me to do a survey on a chosen type of communications technology, to keep it simple I went with email and now I have to write the survery. Since this place has a large group of people I would like it if you would respond with ideas for questions that most people would respond to about their use of email. Service providers,what use,etc.... I'm looking for anything I havn't thought of yet.

PS Aren't you glad this isn't a poll?

Do you use email?

How many accounts do you have?

On average, how many emails a week do you receive?

How many emails do you generally send in a week?

How many people you know use email?

Do you think email is being replaced with new technologies? (eg. text messaging, etc.)

What is the average length of your emails?

How long do you spend writing an email?

etc.

Do you forward jokes and chain-mail?

Do you use e-mail for keeping in contact?

Who do you e-mail? (School friends, co-workers, family, girl/boy-friend)

What motivates you to use e-mail over other forms of communication? (Is it convenient? Discrete?)

What are the primary topics of conversation?

Where do you check your e-mail? (Work computer, home computer, PDA during school?)

When do you spend most of your time reading and sending e-mail? (All day, lunch-break, evening at home?)

What proportion of your email inbox is:

* Porn spam.
* Viagra spam.
* Generic "enlarge your penis" but not viagra spam.
* Other spam.
* Real mail.

JamesM wrote:* Porn spam.
* Viagra spam.
* Generic "enlarge your penis"

Are you alright JamesM?

I assume that was dead serious, for good reason. You'll notice that a lot of spam indeed falls into those categories. I've put up some custom filters that block the vast majority of that stuff but it was pretty annoying a few years ago.

As for the questions:
where do you have an account(s) (in the style of: free webservices, ISP, work, private server, ...)

I assume that was dead serious, for good reason. You'll notice that a lot of spam indeed falls into those categories. I've put up some custom filters that block the vast majority of that stuff but it was pretty annoying a few years ago.

I used to get that stuff all the time.

Hi,

crazygray1 wrote:I used to get that stuff all the time.

I never get any of that stuff - I delete the spam without buying anything...


Cheers,

Brendan

I was serious - The spam that gets through our filters at work is 99% viagra or "enlarge" related. None of the spam is actually blocked in case of false positives, and the bayesian networks arent really trained properly so some falls through the net - but it marks most of the spam with an identifier I can filter by. Unfortunately I still have to go to my filter box and mark all the items as 'read' once in a while so I get to see what goodies have been sent to me!

Seriously though my work account only gets about 5 items a week, my gmail account doesn't get THAT many but gmail does a really good job of filtering. My hotmail account which I haven't used for about a year - I signed on to that the other day to find 1260 "real" messages and 6 "junk" messages. I couldn't find one single non junk message in my inbox. Nice going M$, you sure did make a quality system...

P.S: Rofl @ brendan!