That’s the number of chat messages I have received and sent in almost two years at Skype. Around 150 per day, 20 per working hour.

Chat (1-to-1 and multi-chats) are the most important communication tool at Skype. Together with the wiki, they form great pair, so simple (I like simple) yet working so well. The company has grown, but these tools still do the job very well. I cannot imagine dealing with that much communication using only email like in so many places (like Sten).

If you also want to know how many messages you have sent and received, it’s easy. Check in your Skype directory (Document and Settings/username/Application Data/skype etc. under Windows, $HOME/.Skype under Linux) and look for the chatmsgXXX.dbb files, XXX being a number like 256, 512, etc. To get approximately the total number of messages, multiply the size in bytes of each chatmsgXXX.dbb file with the XXX number and sum all results.

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