At 08:12 PM 6/26/00, Rodos wrote:
>On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Jon Biddell wrote:
>
> > Most users were fairly fast (hours <= 5 or so), but a few users had (and I
> > kid you not) - mailboxes in excess of 500Mb !! When the benefits of mail
> > "purging" were pointed out, we were told "But I NEED all of those, and not
> > stored on a CD either - I need them on the hard drive"
>
>Pray tell, did these people have their mail boxes on their local hard
>drive, but failed to ever back it up?
Ah - yes, well... The department "policy" at the time was that the files
were stored locally, and a ZenWorks job ran every week to copy their
mailbox to the server (Novell) for backup - trouble with this was;
1. The ZenWorks job ran during WORK hours (they would log out / turn off
the PC at night - none of your "wake-on-lan" crap here !!)
2. The job invariably failed SOMEWHERE and was never fixed.
Yes, some user printed their mail and filed it in a folder - why ? One
answer was "Because that's the way I want to do it"...
Some people shouldn't be allowed to breed !!!
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