On Thu, May 28, 1998 at 10:23:12AM -0500, Adam Bailey wrote:
> Let's say the average email is 5k. I did a random sampling in my AOL
> mailbox, and it seemed to work out to that. And let's say we want to
> increase that absurdly small 550 to 600, a minor improvement. 50 messages
> X 5k = 250k * (12,000,000 members * 1.2 average screen names per members
> (1997) = 14,400,000) = 3,525,000,000. That's 3.5 gigabytes for just an
> extra 50 5k messages.
Wow, a whole $200 worth of disk. I can see why AOL wouldn't want to make that
kind of investment. :-)
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