Close. 1941 for CF-Talk and 1143 for JRun-Talk. Then you've got the
listservers, archives, digests, etc.
As many of you may have noticed, many of the standard footers for mail
messages like the unsubscribe information, the advertising and some ISP
footers (hotmail, etc.) are automatically removed from posts to save on the
bandwidth. I'm on a 56k line at home and those few extra characters do add
up.
> Math time. I'm making a couple of assumptions here, but let's say that
two
> lists with one thousand subscribers each had just one person who did this.
>
> 200 messages * avg 2k per message * 1000 subscribers * two lists
>
> = 800,000k
>
> That's a little more than 781megs... and 400,000 individual messages.
> Probably sent within a fairly short time period. Now the listserver is
> choking on all the mail, and MD's probably getting quite a few
nasty-grams.
> CF-Talk is slowed to a 5 hour turnaround on new messages... Etc...
>
> Is that math even right? That's a crazy amount of mail...
>
> -Cameron
>
> --------------------
> Cameron Childress
> elliptIQ Inc.
> p.770.460.7277.232
> f.770.460.0963
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Greg Wolfinger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 10:24 AM
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Subject: Re: OT: Vacations and being banned
> >
> >
> > I'm sorry, but I really don't understand why this is such a big issue.
> > Fine, someone accidentally sent 200 messages, but it happens.
> > It's hard to
> > understand why hitting delete is such a difficult task. It's nice
Michael
> > that you host all of these CF lists and I really do appreciate it, but I
> > just don't understand why you seem SO angry.
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