measure email reply delay

[nonsns]

there are two delays worth measuring:

• d1) the delay in replying to some guy
• d2) the delay that this same guy has in replying me

possible use:

• d1) sort inbox by delay d1 - a subjective measure of importance of that guy for you, so you may want to keep the reply delay low
• d2) sort inbox by delay d2 - d2 (or d2/d1) is a measure of fairness (you want d2/d1 = 1 to enforce reciprocity
• d2bis) to enforce d2/d1=1 you can also add an optional delay when sending emails (Send now/Send later/Send delayed) where the additional delay is equal to (d1-d2) so that that guy will not receive the email faster than he sends you (but you can edit the reply when you see that mail)

possible stats:

• mean and stdev per user (above, it make sense to control on E[d1]-E[d2] for instance)
• distribution of the aggregate delay (I strongly suspect my personal delay reply distribution to be heavy tailed :)

PS.
I joined GitHub to comment on this. This is my first post, so I do not even have a clue how to label this "issue" as newfeature and enhancement. I believe this extension has great potential!!

[ghost]

+1

I really think this would be useful.

[varunbhartiya]

+1