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The 1,214 Email Vacation, Taming The Listserv Beast

By Brian Tannebaum, Esq.

I did it. Turned off the blackberry for a week - 7 days.The goal - to see how many emails I receive in a week, and to see whether I would return to "is this thing on" from anyone.So here's the breakdown:1,214 - average of 173.8 a day, an average of 7.2 an hour.883 came from lawyer listservs - 72%189 of the listserv emails, or 21%, came from 29 people.Of the rest, about 189 were "somewhat" relevant, meaning they came from real people not trying to sell me anything, including some from clients.But 72% of the emails I receive on a weekly basis are on lawyer listservs.Now I'm a member of 5 lawyer listservs. Three are criminal defense, two are ethics. The most active is NACDL, and FACDL coming in at 261 and 268 emails respectively for the week, as compared to the NACDL White Collar Listserv at 60...continue to full post

Full post as published by Criminal Defense on March 23, 2011 (boomark / email).