On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 06:31:35AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Which is marketing talking, not technical realities. How many people do I > think have 1.4Gb archives? It's easier to ask me how many I think don't have > such large archives. Webmail users. People who use local clients often have > that, and more. I cannot think of anyone that I have met face to face who has > archives smaller than that. Most of the people who come to mind aren't > technical gurus, either.
I get a few hundred messages a day, and I never delete any mail other than spam. My archives over the last *four years* total about 900 megs. Again, I think that we on this list are a particularly computer-savvy breed, and the size of our email archives is quite a bit larger than most. > There's more than disk space involved here. Bandwidth comes to mind. > Even with the prevailance of broadband I wouldn't want to have large messages > coming in and out of my connection while I'm trying to have a decent game of > CS. :P Email is not a bandwidth problem. If we're looking for a place to focus our bandwidth worries, how about porn or MP3s? Email is the dead-last concern. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key
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