Real people - Kevin Tunis

Online services, def. - Jane Quigley via Alert Thingy

Actually, spam wins the email volume contest, but that's not a person or service. - Aaron Schaub

lately rss updates have tip the email scales... - Anthony Farrior

Online services and pseudo-people like the alumni assoc., local MoveOn people etc. - Steve Lynch via twhirl

I think the real people are in the minority, sadly. - TranceMist

I get more Bacn than real email. It's sad. - Bwana

I also get more mail from services! - Joe Dawson

Way more from services... unless you count the one person who keeps sending me the jokes, cute emails, etc - but she does so much, I count her as a service too! ;) - Paula Hawk

I think it's about even for me. - Chris Rossini

Getting too many from Socialmedian, that's for sure... :) - Stephan Osmont

Humm, ratio around mailing lists 10, notifications 2, beings 1. - Ashton

Excluding official Outlook at work, it's services in Gmail. For people it's Twitter and FriendFeed. - Mike Reynolds

Notifications by far - Hutch Carpenter

Real People 85%; Vendors / Online Services, etc 15% - Susan Beebe

Online services, in a landslide. - Shawn Kirsch

Following up: http://www.louisgray.com/live... - Louis Gray

More notifications than real people by some margin. - Colin Walker

Well, with the new generation, myself included, we never bothered with email. Its always been with IM or some social network. I have at best 5% of the emails of all the people I know. Its a sad fact, in my opinion. - Colby Olson

my contacts are mainly in Los Angeles. the emails i get are from people, but i wouldn't go so far as to call them real. - hisherness

real people, but mainly real people in list serve groups and news groups - Prokofy Neva

Yesterday: (Mostly newsletters) ~450 e-mails, ~100 real people (It was Saturday, kind of light), ~50 junk mail, ~300 newsletters & requested info - Mitchell Tsai

Notification Aggregation! Smells like bacn. - Ashton

Peeps. - Steve Rubel

equal amounts - Michael VanDervort

real people to my personal/blog email. Online services to my work email - Deepak Singh

online services. i've tried to unsubscribe from many legit companies, and they make it really hard. If i get an email from a real person, it makes my day. - Ginger Makela Riker

My e-mail is about 50/50 between real people and automated notifications. - Michael Beck

online services - viki saigal

Mailing lists (remember them?) - so real people. - Baxter Tocher

my work email is all real people, my other account is 99% spam. - Chris Hollander