# Back from vacation, inbox: 173 **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 20, 2002, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-from-vacation-inbox-173/104730 "2002-04-20T23:29:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2002, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-from-vacation-inbox-173/104730/1 "2002-04-20T23:29:40Z")
It feels great to be back… Been net deprived for the past 9 days. But my inbox… ugh. 173. 173!! Oh well… time to sort the spam. Glad to be back. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2002, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-from-vacation-inbox-173/104730/2 "2002-04-21T00:40:55Z")
Yep. When I’m away for work for a week, I figure on anywhere from 150-200 new e-mails when I get home (on the personal e-mail. The work one…about the same, if I didn’t have access where I was). I spend about 5 minutes deleting them. It’s pretty easy, since “real” e-mail is sorted into folders and I only need to scan for things that ended up in the wrong place. ---
**Author:** ![Tinkertoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f19dbf/32.png) [@Tinkertoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tinkertoy)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2002, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-from-vacation-inbox-173/104730/3 "2002-04-21T03:23:14Z")
173 is that all? Heh I returned from a five day trip this morning and found 384. of course only 28 were not spam. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2002, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-from-vacation-inbox-173/104730/4 "2002-04-21T03:26:49Z")
Back at DEC when I came to work after a 2 week vacation I was lucky if I had under 2000 work-related emails. ---
**Author:** ![Palve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a698b9/32.png) [@Palve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palve)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2002, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-from-vacation-inbox-173/104730/5 "2002-04-21T04:55:31Z")
Pshaw. I signed up to a mailing list about two weeks ago and I easily get 100+ messages per day. ---
**Author:** ![Skerri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Skerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skerri)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2002, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-from-vacation-inbox-173/104730/6 "2002-04-21T17:17:08Z")
Hey, whatever happened to our Dopefest? 😃 Well, glad you made it back ok. For the record, the most I’ve ever had in my inbox was 127, after spending a week away from computers. ---
**Author:** ![pbrtallboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f475e1/32.png) [@pbrtallboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbrtallboy)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2002, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-from-vacation-inbox-173/104730/7 "2002-04-22T15:01:07Z")
My inbox is bigger than yours! ---
**Author:** ![super\_head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d6d6ee/32.png) [@super\_head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/super_head)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2002, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-from-vacation-inbox-173/104730/8 "2002-04-22T15:13:29Z")
Yes, 173 messages is peanuts! 🙂 Mine on average probably looks like (per day): 10-15 work related e-mails 10-80 personal e-mails (yes, it really varies that much!) 30-60 mailing list e-mails …and a buttload of IM messages, but then those don’t really accrue in my absence except on ICQ.