[OT] [plug] happy days!

John Usher (Maptek) John.Usher at perth.maptek.com.au
Thu Jun 17 13:33:43 WST 2004


>just remember, its 100M uncompressed. Most email is text, which
compresses 
>easily. And these days, most attachments are stupid powerpoint
presentations 
>or Anne Geddes photos, so they only have to store those once as well :)

yeah - very true. never really thought about it much, but yeah, if they
md5 all the attachments and just save one, they're laughing!

they'd just need a few petabytes for the daily spam dose though ;-)

i was kind of more impressed by the pointless bandwagon-jumping than the
amount they're giving away...



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