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345 emails since February in my work account, i usually format my computer every year and start anew and i organize it in Inbox and Spam. 
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I moved over my domain email to Gmail five years ago and have never looked back.
My current stats are Inbox (39,745) and Spam (2,399) where I receive on average about 325 emails/day with 25 of these being automatically filtered as important and the remaining 300 designated as spam which are automatically deleted after 30 days.
In the past I managed my own email server which I accessed through my Outlook client which took about an hour out of my day to manage and wade through all the emails especially since I had to keep refining my junk email rules to keep out all of the spam which for the most part is automatically done by Google when using Gmail.
In the five years since, I manage everything remotely through my Google Dashboard with nothing downloaded locally and with Google's powerful search capabilities I am able to quickly find any email I have ever sent or received without having to necessarily set-up the folder infrastructure to keep everything neat and tidy like I use to have to do with Outlook and instead just use various labels and such and sometimes not even these as their search works so great.
I literally have gained back an hour to my schedule for everyday of the week which is some 365 hours/year or 9.13 forty hour weeks/year or one full 52 week year every 5.70 years if my quick off the head arithmetic is correct and I still never have ever deleted an email except for spam of course, but the pain of managing it all rest Google's more than capable hands and all for free at that leaving me to do other more productive and less mundane pursuits.
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I delete most of my inbox but keep all of my sent items. Maybe it's part of the role of being a 'software expert' at the company I work at, but I find what I send is far more valuable than what I receive. Usually similar issues may come up in future and I need to track down an explanation I came up with last time. I hope that doesn't make me sound egotistical. 
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As much fun there can be while collaborating with external companies... there are also some moments of total frustruation...
A simple issue:
External company provides an SSH server. And our company should connect to this server...
Problem:
We got the connection details (ip, username, etc.) about a month ago. And it's still not working.
After double-checking our firewall that the problem is at our company I informed them about the issues.
It looks like they have a "Network partner" who configures their firewall (ip restriction, NAT configuration).
Communication is mainly over email. I've got now about 3 or 4 mails in my inbox about "Our network partner has found an error and fixed it. Please try again." After each so called "fix": nothing has changed... 
If I'm not mistaken the whole system should have gone into the site acceptance test end of last week...
Have you ever experienced something alike?
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Nicholas Marty wrote: Have you ever experienced something alike?
No; partners are responsible for their shizzle, I don't care whether they subcontract or what their subcontractor does. I don't wanna hear about "internal problems", either they deliver, or they don't.
If they're overdue for a month, find someone else.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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How much is all this costing?
Save both companies a fortune, and get yourself a bonus:
Buy a big reel of Ethernet cable, two Ethernet plugs, and a gadget for fixing the plugs onto the cable...
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Take the test.
I scored 5 - Dude-veloper whereas everybody else in my team scored -40 or below which gives them Geek status. There is a difference of opinion as to whether my score makes me the coolest.
Sorry Link here[^].
modified 6 Mar '13 - 9:13.
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Link?
Alcohol. The cause of, and the solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson
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Zelda?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Gannon!
CPallini wrote: You cannot argue with agile people so just take the extreme approach and shoot him.
:Smile:
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I scored a perfect 10.
If only because you forgot to post the test...
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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40 points from Bhaindor for not being able to post a link correctly. Or was that a part of the test to not post links to reposted material ?
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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-50 for me.
Although I disagree with some of the answers I had to choose. Which probably confirms me as the geek they claim I am.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
Shed Petition[ ^]
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35 Dude-Veloper . Sounds like I'm a comic book character!
If it moves, compile it
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-10 although I believe was -60 at some point in the test.
John
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Answer - No.
So, I win again.
Reality is an illusion caused by a lack of alcohol
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-75
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-10
Regular Joegrammer
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"Show me a community that obeys the Ten Commandments and I'll show you a less crowded prison system." - Anonymous
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1st try
-70
...making you a Geek
2nd try
5
...making you a Dude-veloper
...cheated on the 2nd try. 
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-45, oh darn, I am not in a category I don't want to be in.
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-50 but I really didn't understand all the answers...probably too old!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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