Even with non-text emails, the bandwidth usage of email really is not
that big on the grand scheme of things.
With transit prices as low as they are (as long as you are buying real
bandwidth, comercial stuff, in large pipes), in the $10-50/mbit, it
really is not that bad.
I have seen a lot of people at U of A whenever network cost gets brought
up saying that we should "Limit our internet traffic" and such. U of A
has 70 Mbit and 135Mbit for I1, and 155Mbit for I2 (soon to go to
2.5gbit). The cost for the I1 connections really is not that high
considering you have over 40,000 students behind it. The real cost is
running the U of A network itself, a cost that would not go away even if
you cut the campus from the internet.
Not some simple bogon filtering and junk packet filtering (RFC 1918
source address?) can save a fair amount of bandwidth by itself
(20-30Mbit was the savings for U of A).
Harry
On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 18:09 -0600, Brian Weeden wrote:
> It's not email really but the non-text emails. All those fancy inline
> images and rich text and audio and crap. Ban all that and require all
> email to be plain old text and you can send as much email as you want.
>
> --
> Brian
>
