>Okay guys... I need some expert input here.
>
>Scenerio: Students neglect their email accounts (quotas), and messages
are
>not delivered to them. Faculity do NOT want quotas in place, ~nor~
>automated "Time Retension" cycles purging messages after X number of days.
>$$$ says that storage space will never be unlimited...
>
>Here is their request. Does anyone have any solid ideas for this? It is
>virutally impossible with any software I've ever encountered.
>--- Faculty Committee Request ---
>
>Could full mailboxes be dumped into archive and restored to the user for a
>fee?
I assume they must be kidding. The cost of this would be exorbitant to say
the least. Just the storage media alone. I asked friends at the colleges
and they all dump the student accounts at the end of the semester. They
also limit storage to 3-5,000000k. With the advent of MP3 music you could
be looking at a storage capacity requirement that would require you to
double or even triple your current storage media. Even zipped files on
removable media (another storage and accounting nightmare) would probably
exceed the tutition cost of a full time student.
>
>The restoration could amount to providing a zip disk with the files if the
>user wishes to retrieve them.
>
>1. Set a limited amount of space,
To what? 3-5,000,000k per student x how many students?
>
>2. an automatic series of warnings as the space limit is approached
>
I agree with you on this, the only cost effective way would be to send the
user a notice when they get close to the linit (ala Hotmail).
>
>3. if files are not removed from the server archive the oldest mail until
>1/2 user space quota has been freed.
>
And how many man hours will this require? And lets not forget the storage
space and retreival time.
>
>4. if the user requests and pays the fee provide backup copy of files. The
>fee should pay for the media needed to hold the files, and the labor
>involved in the transfer.
>
How do you determine the individual cost and how many students can afford
this?
>
>5. it would be understood from the onset that the back-up retrieval is done
>one day per week and fees must be paid in advance. If a fee has not been
>paid the user will have to wait until the next week.
>
I see this as creating a monster that will eat it's caretakers, am I wrong?
Might I suggest that you point out that the students are legally adults and
should take responsibility for their own Emails. They would also be the
best judges of what is worth of achieving and what is not. You also have
the privacy issue as well. You might even get some support from any privacy
fanatics in the administration. (I know we have a customer who had a fit
because the little weather and news icon on our home page set a cookie (to
see when it needed to update) on his machine. Finally, lest we forget who
gave electronic mail it's first major use, not from the working side of the
fledgling DARPA network but from the academics, researchers and other users
playing games. I doubt few of these were truly worth capturing for
posterity.
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