On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 7:10 PM, Jim Cheetham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Don Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Really... if you were using 20gb/month I might ask questions, but isn't >> this a bit silly? > > There's nothing silly in querying "higher than normal" usage; as it > may indicate that you have a compromised PC forming part of a botnet > or something. > > However, once you have managed to confirm that the high reading is > "correct" (i.e. worked out how much Google Mail uses by asking other > people), the baseline should just get reset, and no further questions > are necessary :-) > > I once saw a business switch from Telecom to Telstra, and the Telstra > plan had a "10GB/month" setting. Luckily for them, their network tech > noticed (after the switchover) that they were running at 1GB/day on > email. This was queried; the fix was to get them to stop accepting all > email for their domain, and instead accept only named users (e.g. > staff + "sales@", "accounts@" etc). This dropped them down to a few > hundred meg a month. > > Asking the question about usage is an essential part of finding problems :-) >
Exactly, I am way over the firm baseline. I do more online stuff, searches google and non google), download cases etc in my legal practice than others in the firm, but still seem to be way out of kilter with others. Big traffic to google was about half of it. I am on a fact finding mission more than anything. An the data costs nothing to produce and minimal to print as a graph!
