Sorry for the late fdrop in... Am 2007-07-28 21:31:01, schrieb Børge Holen: > On Thursday 14 June 2007 00:41, Philip Thompson wrote: > > On Jun 13, 2007, at 1:15 PM, Richard Lynch wrote: > > > On Wed, June 13, 2007 12:21 am, Crayon Shin Chan wrote: <snip> > > > Do students and interns still have quotas on their email accounts?... > > > > Yes. It does depend on the university though. For our students, the > > default is only 50 megs - they may request more. However, these text- > > only emails don't really take up that much space.
WOW, thats hard...
I have an account at the University in Freiburg/Germany and we
have 1 GByte of storage sonce diskspace cost nearly nothing...
(Even if there are over 100.000 Students)
> There seems to be some failure to comunicate (I believe the Prodigy said
> that)... whatever, quotas on the universities will not keep you from
> recieving mail... or download anything of the net. It just defines the space
> available to the user. The temporary space available lets you pull way more,
> and get a delete warning from either an automated system or an admin (at my
> university, wasn't it 10 days or so before forced deletion on random objects
> occured?... dunno).
Random objects or objects older then a a certain age?
I do not believem that a Sysadmin would delete Random objects...
> Imagine an master or phD degree getting lost because someone set up an
> university server with some weird download quota.
Such things could be quiet expensive...
> This could hardly be _A_ reason for makin' this blog... the amount of mail or
> numbers should not be an issue. If it is so... how about them digest mails?
...and I realy ca not believe, that an University seup a quota of 50
MBytes.
I know many students which create montly folders and then they tar it
up at the end of the month.
For example I have the whole list fro, 2002 to 2007 as local mailarchive
and the smalest bzip2 tarball is from 2003-11 (308kByte) and the biggest
2007-04 (1538 kByte) and deco,pressed nearly 6 times bigger MAILDIR.
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