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. Greetings Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator Tamay Dogan Network Debian GNU/Linux Consultant -- Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ ##################### Debian GNU/Linux Consultant ##################### Michelle Konzack Apt. 917 ICQ #328449886 50, rue de Soultz MSN LinuxMichi 0033/6/61925193 67100 Strasbourg/France IRC #Debian (irc.icq.com)
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