I am weird, ok? Usually I do not like to gather stuff. I get irritated and get rid of things I do not use. However when it comes to things digital, I am the opposite. Especially with data. Not many people I know of still have ALL the email they have EVER sent / received. I do. Except for my university email account (which was under Novell Netware), I still have all email ever sent and received. Well, ok - exclude free email accounts which I used from time to time to accomplish some devious goal or another. So I recently purchased MailSteward Pro and imported everything I have on me - all my emails since 1997-06-10:

From 1997-06-10 thru 2011-04-03
Total Number of emails in date range: 193,685
Number of emails with attachments:    35,086
Number of emails with tags:           0
Number of mailboxes:                  259
By Year: 
1997:  128
1998:  1,229 
1999:  1,423 
2000:  1,259 
2001:  5,117 
2002:  5,202 
2003:  6,867 
2004:  13,550 
2005:  19,573 
2006:  26,200 
2007:  25,455 
2008:  22,982 
2009:  17,770 
2010:  37,089 
2011:  9,841

Impressive? I am one of the few people to receive fewer emails as time goes on, except for some blunder in 2010. Seems like I was doing something right.