Sven Hartge <s...@svenhartge.de> wrote: > Andrzej Adam Filip <a...@onet.eu> wrote: >> Stan Hoeppner <s...@hardwarefreak.com> wrote: > >>> [...] The average size of an email worldwide today is less than 4KB, >>> less than one typical filesystem block. [...] > >> Do not confuse "unix culture" of mostly plain text only email messages >> with "MS Junk" culture of overblown formatting with background images >> company logos as a few image files in every (internal) email. > > I just did a rough analysis of the mail spool of my university (6.000 > users, students and faculty staff, about 10 million mails) and the > average mail size was at about 96KiB. Last year, this average was at > 77KiB and in 2009 we were at 62KiB. > > Mails the average size of 4KiB would then have been at a time when > MIME was not yet invented, I believe. Somewhere in 1994. > > Grüße, > Sven.
I assume that in bigger organizations most mail stored in IMAP storage is internal. I also assume that size of typical mail in "unix/linux culture" and "MS culture" do differ. It may explain quite different experiences. Could you elaborate about penetration by MS software/culture (especially about MS Exchange) in your university? BTW I have seen a few (smaller) organizations with most (internal) mails below 4KB but remaining *huge* mails capable to very significantly influence average size. It makes me doubt about value of *bare* "average email size". P.S. Anyway many organization are legally obliged to archive all emails. -- [pl>en: Andrew] Andrzej Adam Filip : a...@onet.eu Oh wearisome condition of humanity! Born under one law, to another bound. -- Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke
