I get a decent amount of email through my website (many for Posterous customizations), and I feel bad when I find a cluster of emails sent a while back that I never replied to. I hate it when this happens because many people take personal offense when they don't get a response, when in reality, I just ran out of time - it wasn't anything personal.
What I think I need is a Gmail plugin that would perform a calculation and display the result on my website to people who email me. (If something like this exists, PLEASE let me know.) Here's what it needs to do:
- How many emails does Cory have starred? (I use Gmail's starring feature to remind me what emails I need to reply to.)
- How many of starred emails have been replied to within the past week/month?
- Based upon how many starred emails exist, for what amount of money am I most likely to respond to an email?
But the problem that I see with this would be, if less people emailed me and I started responding to a higher percentage of messages that I receive, will the plugin start telling people that I'm more likely to start responding to messages? That's why I think it would be important for the system to know how much money I am likely to make from the messages I choose to respond to. If the plugin knew that I regularly respond to emails that solicit jobs banking me $10k+, then it could display a message indicating that trend and weed out cheapskates.
Like I said, if something like this exists, please let me know. I really think it would be useful. Just leave it as a comment - don't email me. =]