Comments on: I hate you for e-mailing me http://www.dadams.co.uk/2009/10/02/i-hate-you-for-e-mailing-me/ "I don't celebrate the magical thinking that says one random point in the space-time continuum is somehow special" - Scott Adams (via Dilbert) Thu, 24 Nov 2011 13:15:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Darren http://www.dadams.co.uk/2009/10/02/i-hate-you-for-e-mailing-me/comment-page-1/#comment-2276 Darren Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:29:43 +0000 http://www.dadams.co.uk/?p=1576#comment-2276 Interesting comments - I guess I was aiming for two thoughts. The first was that quotas cause people to focus on reducing the size of their mail box, not on their work... and in the end the recipient is the one who suffers because other people send big attachments and knock their victim over quota. The combination of the two is deadly. The second was that there are better ways of sharing content, whether in an activity or a team place - whatever, the content always sits better with something that supports the business activity or process that the content is part of, so it's in the right context. And the co-ordination of the content often works better. Interesting comments – I guess I was aiming for two thoughts. The first was that quotas cause people to focus on reducing the size of their mail box, not on their work… and in the end the recipient is the one who suffers because other people send big attachments and knock their victim over quota. The combination of the two is deadly.

The second was that there are better ways of sharing content, whether in an activity or a team place – whatever, the content always sits better with something that supports the business activity or process that the content is part of, so it’s in the right context. And the co-ordination of the content often works better.

]]> By: Nathan T. Freeman http://www.dadams.co.uk/2009/10/02/i-hate-you-for-e-mailing-me/comment-page-1/#comment-2275 Nathan T. Freeman Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:18:41 +0000 http://www.dadams.co.uk/?p=1576#comment-2275 Email quotas are stupid. Drive space is cheap. Human time is expensive. Your servers should do the job of cleaning up 11GB mail databases, not your users. If you're going to make humans do the work of computers, you deserve to get outsourced to Google. Email quotas are stupid. Drive space is cheap. Human time is expensive. Your servers should do the job of cleaning up 11GB mail databases, not your users. If you’re going to make humans do the work of computers, you deserve to get outsourced to Google.

]]> By: Vaughan Rivett http://www.dadams.co.uk/2009/10/02/i-hate-you-for-e-mailing-me/comment-page-1/#comment-2274 Vaughan Rivett Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:04:38 +0000 http://www.dadams.co.uk/?p=1576#comment-2274 Thanks for reading my blog and for the insightful comments on yours. I typically use google as a guide for mail box quotas. They are just over 1Gb for a free mail account. If the restrictions are too tight, then the business risks loosing valuable information by users who are a bit trigger happy with that delete key. I is not about deletion, but it is about better management. Thanks for reading my blog and for the insightful comments on yours. I typically use google as a guide for mail box quotas. They are just over 1Gb for a free mail account.

If the restrictions are too tight, then the business risks loosing valuable information by users who are a bit trigger happy with that delete key. I is not about deletion, but it is about better management.

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