Wow,I clicked I have not opened my AOL email account since January 13, 2023. In that time just over eleven months, I accrued 6,000 emails- all unread. I received an email from AOL at my outlook account last night; it said my AOL email account would have everything in it deleted if I did not open it by sometime this coming March. So I took a look and was a bit surprised to see how many I had received in that time. I checked off the box to select all, then hit delete. It only deleted 100 of them. What I had to do was to check select all, then keep scrolling down to assure more than 100 would be deleted. I deleted about 1K at a pop;so, did that about 6 times. I did not look to see if any were important or not, if it's important I should receive it in my outlook account. What I did notice at a glance was that most appeared to be spam.I sincerely hope no one of any importance to me had been trying to reach me at that ancient email account. If so, oh well, I guess they'll have to find another way.
Just a fun fact: that was about 545 emails a month over 11 months or about 17.75 per day. To break it down to hours and then to minutes that I had not looked at my AOL email, I used this website to do some calculating. I am not saying they are correct or not because other sites has differing results, each being different from one another. This was their result:
337 days 23 hours 15 minutes (about 17.75 emails per day)
8,111.25 hours (roughly about .73 emails per hour)
486,675 minutes
Damn, I am sure other folks get more than me but it is still mind boggling to think people, companies and whatever or whoever kept sending me that many unread and thus unanswered emails.
All the best,
Glenn B
1 comment:
Odds are almost all were spam. I suspect that that email account has been skimmed at some point in the past and has made it onto one or more of the lists sold on the dark web.
I also have an account that I don't normally use, but do check every few days. There are a couple of sites where I have used that address years ago that still send to it, but mostly it is spam & scams. I know that email address has been exposed through site hacks in the past.
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