>[Adam calculates cost of AOL increasing message space]
>
>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.
Yup and at today's prices that 3.5 gigabytes of disk space goes for
~~$500 (or less). Yes, there are lots of other charges involved then just the
raw price of the disk space; but it's not clear that should more then double
the price. I wonder about the 5K bytes per message number though. With the
growth in the use of MIME, I can see people mailing very large messages Does
AOL put a limit on the SIZE of each message? Can the Warez people mail each
other copies of Office 98?
Bill Bogstad
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