[X4U] E-Mail programs (Was: Users' judgments of the glossy screen?)

[John Kiss]

On Feb 29, 2008, at 1:19 PM, Daly Jessup wrote:

>> On Feb 29, 2008, at 6:14 AM, Daly Jessup wrote:
>
>>> Well, if they averaged 500k each, and if the data base really was  
>>> 25GB, that means you had saved about 50 billion messages.  That's  
>>> a lot of email.
>
> Ed answered:
>
>> My calculations says 50 million. But in any case I did not have  
>> either. I did keep 1 years worth of email  and a copy of every  
>> message I sent.
>> That is still quite a bit short of 25G . I am unable to account for  
>> a 25G database. Aftyer 5 years I did start archiving the messages  
>> though.
>
> You're right. 50 million. I was counting a kb as "one" rather than  
> as "a thousand," stupidly. But anyway, clearly something is funky  
> there. Maybe you had exceeded the file-size limitations of the OS  
> and were getting faulty data?
>

How about 50,000?