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

[Brian L. Matthews]

>>> 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.
>> 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?

No, it's 50,000. 25E9 / 5E5 = (25/5)E(9-5) = 5E4 = 50,000. Not all that 
many messages at all.

Brian