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You are all wusses - about 2 weeks ago when I looked, my ex-wife had over 750,000 unread emails.  She wouldn't let me take a screenshot :P [[Special:Contributions/172.68.86.112|172.68.86.112]] 00:05, 26 November 2020 (UTC)
 
You are all wusses - about 2 weeks ago when I looked, my ex-wife had over 750,000 unread emails.  She wouldn't let me take a screenshot :P [[Special:Contributions/172.68.86.112|172.68.86.112]] 00:05, 26 November 2020 (UTC)
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: I'm guessing communication was a problem in your relationship? ;) --[[Special:Contributions/162.158.187.247|162.158.187.247]] 17:48, 30 November 2020 (UTC)
 
  
 
This graph seems way off to me. It says 'percentage of messages', so the highest point should be at the far left. At some point, you will have a single message saying "Welcome to WhateverMessagingService", which will initially be unread, therefore 100%. When he's standing at the beginning looking at the icon that says 2 messages, that's probably 2 out of 3, or 2 out of 4. It could be back up at 100% depending on the service (does it auto-delete read notifications?), but it's likely lower than at the start. But for the first few weeks, I'd expect to see a series of tall peaks, gradually getting lower as the number of old read messages slowly increases, with flat valleys inbetween where everything is read. Then as you get into the habit of putting off reading them, the valleys start getting shallower until they swallow the peaks, and you get a slowly rising curve that eventually levels off pretty high.
 
This graph seems way off to me. It says 'percentage of messages', so the highest point should be at the far left. At some point, you will have a single message saying "Welcome to WhateverMessagingService", which will initially be unread, therefore 100%. When he's standing at the beginning looking at the icon that says 2 messages, that's probably 2 out of 3, or 2 out of 4. It could be back up at 100% depending on the service (does it auto-delete read notifications?), but it's likely lower than at the start. But for the first few weeks, I'd expect to see a series of tall peaks, gradually getting lower as the number of old read messages slowly increases, with flat valleys inbetween where everything is read. Then as you get into the habit of putting off reading them, the valleys start getting shallower until they swallow the peaks, and you get a slowly rising curve that eventually levels off pretty high.

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