Forgive me if the two posts from Eric were not related:
saturating a T1:
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Todd presents a good formula, but this is not taking into account anything but the
message size. As Stan mentions, email size is not a good indicator of total network
traffic - even if you are only in the email business.
Average email size:
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One of my systems sends out a text-only message twice a week. It is usually around
20k in size, and is (this week) 566 lines long, not including headers. This email is
over four times our average message size.
64k average seems very large - of course when you factor in attachments, HTML- or
RTF-formatted messages, the size can get up there. Looking at my inbox, however,
which contains over 1200 emails, I have only 90 with attachments, and just ten or so
that are not plain text.
Unfortunately, the average size of an email is going to vary widely based on a number
of factors which we can only begin to discuss before we realize that this thread gets
out of control ;)
<:) Lyndon
