> * 12M

You seriously believe that AOL has set aside 40 terabytes for mailboxes?
Or that more than a tiny percentage of AOL's subscribers are affected by
the 550-message limit?

> And that doesn't take into account mirrors or other online data redundancy 
> measures (such as RAID), directory space, indexes, backup devices, etc.

You seriously believe that the cost of a reliable 100-terabyte disk farm
would be troublesome for a ten-million-subscriber ISP?

---Dan
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