On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 02:55:56PM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] mentioned:
> Michael T. Babcock �crit:
> > This would probably be most useful on machines with more CPU than drive
> > space. Mind you, drive space does tend to be cheaper these days than CPU
> > time.
>
> It depends on your email traffic. A small company usually has a single
> box for web/ftp/mail/fax/dns and no more than 20 mails per hour.
> Nobody will notice the compression CPU overhead, but more disk space
> will be available.
> And yes, disks are cheap these days, but RAID makes them expensive.
And it makes a lot of sense if some of your salesmen have 40MB doc files
or powerpoint presentations in their mailboxes every so often.
Kate
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