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Subject : Re: LUG: Student Email

From : Brian <spiffytech@gmail.[redacted]>

Date : Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:10:48 -0500

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I don't believe that the "more space" addiction you mention exists for 99.999% of users. I've been using Gmail since it's inception and I'm only at 719GB used; 1-2GB would more than suffice for the vast majority of emailers, and those who need more probably don't use NCSU email as their primary email address. Giving each of the 30,000 students 1GB of space amounts to only 30 TB, which is easy to deal with now that 1TB-1.5TB drives are becoming common.

I also don't think it's reasonable to expect users to archive their email offline. Most users don't understand that such a thing is possible, or how to do it, so such management techniques should not be an inevitability. Users don't need infinite space for their email, but having more than 125MB would alleviate the need for archiving/purging.

-Brian


On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 9:29 AM, Richard Costello < Richard.Costello@ncmail.[redacted] > wrote:
Jack,
More space is a desire and curse.
Users have to know there are limitations, otherwise you will never have a
enough money in your budget to accommodate the "more space" addiction. Users
have to clean up and archive their data. Manage the space requirements.
Insurance companies have found it cheaper to pay HIPPA fines then
accommodate unlimited space requests.
When you think about, that is a smart strategy.
Bottom Line: Manage the space requirements & requests prudently AND have the
end users manage their data storage via archiving and purging.

Richard

Richard Costello
IT Manager
NC Public Staff utilities Commission
(XXX) 733-0892

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-owner@lists.ncsu.[redacted] [mailto: lug-owner@lists.ncsu.[redacted] ] On Behalf
Of Jack Neely
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 4:15 PM
To: lug@lists.ncsu.[redacted]
Subject: Re: LUG: Student Email

Folks,

Both of these bits are pretty good...and valuable.  Please stick them up
on the student email initiative forum so they will make a difference.
Please....  :-)

The request for more space is the most common thing.  More space is
coming.  (The OIT re-org and email politics have delayed things
horridly.)  I'm working on projects related to getting upgraded cyrus
servers in production that will have more space...so no matter what
direction we go that is something heavily on our minds.

Jack
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Office of Information Technology, NC State University
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