@inproceedings{dabbish2003marked, author = {Dabbish, Laura and Venolia, Gina and Cadiz, JJ}, title = {Marked for deletion: an analysis of email data}, booktitle = {CHI '03: CHI '03 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems}, year = {2003}, month = {January}, abstract = {What characteristics of an email message make it more likely to be discarded? Statistical analyses of a set of deleted and non-deleted messages revealed several factors that were important in predicting the fate of a message. After controlling for the owner of the particular message, four factors turned out to be most important: history of communication with the sender (messages sent to and messages received from), intra-organizational vs. external sender, and size of the recipient group.}, publisher = {ACM}, url = {http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/research/publication/marked-for-deletion-an-analysis-of-email-data/}, pages = {924-925}, isbn = {1-58113-637-4}, edition = {CHI '03: CHI '03 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems}, }