At 05:52 AM 2/28/2003, you wrote:
>Terry H. Gilsenan wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Depending on the type/content of the attachment, each outgoing email
>>could be up to 2Mb. This would equate to 800,000Mb in 12 hours.
>>
>>You are going to require around 20Mb/s Bandwidth.
>>
>
>Oy! Watch your units!
>
>2Mb != 2MB! (Which is what I think you meant)
>
>I think this one has bene done to death anyway. He's got 400,000 emails at
>around 1MB each (For arguments sake. You can scale the numbers easily for
>actiual size).
>
>I think the numbers come out to around 200Mbps (That's Mega bits).
>Sustained rate
>
>Unless he has some serious bandwidth (We only have around 100Mbps
>ourselves and we're a fairly large company :) i.e. at a very well
>connected ISP there's no way he's going to get the content out.
>
>What I'm interested in is what the heck is he sending... 1MB per email?
>That's a BIG email to be sending out to 400000 people...

Of course, this doesn't include the deferred and bounced messages from AOL,
Hotmail, Eathrlink, etc. This will significantly increase bandwidth
consumption and delay delivery.

Nor does it address the thousands of irritated recipients when they have to
download that 1Mb attachment across a dial-up modem line, especially if
that dial-up is provided by AOL. That'll generate some more traffic coming
back to the sender.

Larry

>Is there any way to reduce the size?
>
>H

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