After long last and many trials and tribulations, the September Top Ten for my email contest has been released to the public. Click through to find out the results…

September 2004

For anybody that doesn’t know, in mid-October there was a major hard drive crash on my mail server, and when I (stupidly and unthinkingly) synced my laptop with the server I lost almost all the mail for the last half of September and the first half of October. I’d had local copies of everything even after the drive crashed, but when the server came back up and my mail client syncronized, it said “Oh, these aren’t supposed to be here” and wiped everything. […] I spent many many hours painstakingly manually matching the log files up against the emails I had actual copies of to ensure I did not double count anything. This was a pain because the logs showed time received whereas the easiest to access info on the items I had copies of was the time sent. After all this though, I know I have counted every message I have any evidence for at all, and am sure I have not double counted any of those messages.