> > Of course, as well they should. IT limits and policies should
> facilitate the business of doing business. My senior 
> management is too productive doing things other than policing 
> the size of their mailbox. I provide them with tips and hints 
> on how they might be more effective with e-mail and e-mail 
> storage, but I don't slap arbitrary limits on them. 
> 
> Maybe my management understands disaster better then the 
> people you guys deal with.  

My management designs and sells disaster recovery products for mission
critical solutions, so I like to think that they know a little something
about disasters.

> When we told them their stupidly 
> large mailbox attributes to general slowness of the e-mail 
> server, longer backup and restore times, higher chance of 
> loss of data from a recovery, and numerous other bad things, 
> they had no problems with us taking actions to reduce the 
> size of their mailbox.

I understand how more data can contribute to longer restore times, but
how do they contribute to general slowness on an appropriately sized
server or an increased chance of data loss from a recovery?

> I'm glad none of you guys run my mail server for me.  I'd 
> need to have many terabytes of e-mail storage and backups and 
> restores times that would cost me millions of dollars in business.

I have customers with terabytes of e-mail storage who see their
investment in technology as something which allows them to /create/
millions of dollars in business. I guess it just depends on the
perspective. 



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