Sven Hartge put forth on 1/15/2011 9:29 AM: > 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.
No. You're doing a statistical mean. You need to be doing median. The reason should be obvious. -- Stan
