[lug] [OT] Mail accessibility...

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 05:49:31PM +0000, phutnick at pop.peakpeak.com wrote:
>Don't dismiss IMAP out of hand.  It really rocks.  ISPs tend to be down on it
>for disk space reasons, but disk is getting cheaper faster than mail is getting
>bigger, and you have to store the mail on the server to do webmail anyway.

You might think that, but ISP users tend to be pretty bad about cleaning
out messages in their boxes.  A few thousand new messages thends to make
people on slow dial-up lines VERY cranky.  The odd half terrabyte of
storage for a server-class machine is still pretty expensive to handle 10k
users...

Sean
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