Chris Siebenmann wrote:
|  Speaking as one of those pesky university people (although we don't use
| quotas): one of the reasons this happens is that servers are a lot less
| expensive than disk space. With disk space you have to factor in the
| cost of backups and ongoing maintenance, wheras another server is just N
| thousand dollars in one time costs and some rack space.

This is also common in organizations where IT is a cost center,
including some *very* large ones I've encountered in the past
and several which are just, well, conservative.

--dave
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