Einstein Managed His Inbox Just Like You

[tocqueville]

Robert Roy Britt
LiveScience Managing Editor
LiveScience.com
Wed Oct 26, 2:00 PM ET

If you're like Einstein, you respond to some emails immediately and let others wait. And, of course, some you never answer.

And every now and then, you find an old one in your inbox that you didn't even realize you had, and you reply.

A new study finds that the correspondence of Albert Einstein, as well as that of Charles Darwin, followed patterns similar to modern email communication.

Einstein sent more than 14,500 letters. But he received more than 16,200, and responded to only a quarter of them. Darwin mailed more than 7,500 letters. He responded to 32 percent of the roughly 6,530 letters he received.

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[ixion]

1. now, thanks to SPAM, less than 1 percent of email is valid to begin with

I wonder how Einstein and Darwin would have felt about SPAM. :+

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Only the fittest spam survives. Almost all of it gets deleted.

[Spinzonner]

3. The Theory of Envelopion

[Shipwack]

4. ::puzzled:: You mean Einstein had a Gmail account? nt