Stewart Stremler wrote: > begin quoting m ike as of Wed, May 18, 2005 at 07:59:24PM -0700: > > > I think it is very very feasible to match M = 500 emails per day against > > N * M * D, where N is the number of fictitious addresses one owns, > > and D is depth, in days, of the cache. > > Times U, for users. > > So a successful medium ISP with, oh, 1000 users gets to archive > > 100 * 500 * 30 * 1000 = 1500000000 messages. > > Let's say each message is 1k each. Then we're dealing with 1,500,000,000 > kilobytes, or 1,464,843 megabytes, or 1,430 gigabytes, which is roughly > a terabyte.
1.4 TB, actually. Much more than the average ISP wishes to spend on an email cache, I am certain. -john -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
