[geeks] Gmail's attraction

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Mon, 06 Sep 2004 @ 19:24 +0200, Joost van de Griek said:

> On 2004-09-06 18:13, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> 
> > My main thing against email attachments is when it is used wholesale,
> > and for large files.  This is especially bad when it happens inside a
> > company, since there is no reason for it at all then.
> 
> It is especially bad when $person sends an email with a multi-megabyte Word
> monstrosity (say, "latest version of project specs") to everyone in a
> project team. Assuming that most people do not throw away their (groupware)
> email anytime soon, that means you may end up with multiple copies of said
> humongous document on your *mail* server.

> Multiply this by the number of revisions of the document, and by the number
> of projects going on, and it becomes clear that sending an email saying,
> "Hi, team! I've put a new revision of the specs in the projects share!"
> would be quite a bit more efficient.

Absolutely!

I worked for awhile at "Bank of America" (aka Bank of India) and with
40K desktop users or more, this kind of thing could cause a lot of
damage.

I remember getting a bunch of bullcrap and other noise from Hugh McCall
once, which was probably sent to just about everyone in the company.

It was a Word file with graphics and a few other objects in it, and I
believe it was at least 500K bytes.

Multiply that by 40K recipients...

I mean, why the hell didn't they put it up on an internal web server?

Even if a top manager only emailed Norfolk, we are talking about over
3500 users.

% echo "(3500*500)/1024/1024" | bc -l
1.66893005371093750000

If I did that right, we are talking about 1.7 gigabytes of storage
to send that email to just the workers in *ONE BUILDING* at Bank of
America.




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