Current statistics indicate that 95% of all the email that comes to my primary email address is thrown away before it hits my mailbox. Another 55% of the remaining is tagged by spamassassin as junk. Apple’s spam filter catches another bunch, and sorts it all into a junk folder. That junk folder is averaging 150 new messages a day. I skim it before deleting, but I’m soon going to stop even doing that and just outright delete anything that gets tagged as spam, sight unseen.
Therefore, if you write to me and I don’t respond … just write again. It’s highly likely that I’m throwing away some signal with the noise at this point.
Also, don’t try to use an attached FireWire disk as your primary shared data repository for a compute cluster. It doesn’t work.
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