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Re: [faq-maintainers] 73 terabytes per year....

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From: Edward Reid (edward@paleo.org)
Date: Sun Dec 24 2000 - 16:41:14 CST


At 10:19 AM 12/24/00 -0800, Ping Huang wrote:
>The study's estimate is that in 2000, there were 11,285 terabytes of
>email (610 billion messages), 73 terabytes of Usenet postings

The Usenet figure obviously includes binaries, and the email figure
presumably includes attachments. This was appropriate in the content of the
study, which was to determine total information content. In the context of
FAQs, however, the total text content would be far more interesting.

Edward Reid

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