Slightly off-topic question but very useful one

[Rob Siemborski]

On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Jim Howell wrote:

>          I apologize for this off-topic question but I think we will all
> find this useful.  What mailfile size limits do folks support and the user
> mailbox quota size?  We are being told by some of our users that we are too
> restrictive.  Here at Cornell we allow 15MB mailfiles from 8am to 6pm and
> 100MB mailfiles from 6pm to 8am.  We also give our users a 200MB mailbox
> quota.  Please respond directly to me and I'll be happy to summawize for
> the list.  Thanks.

CMU allows mail transfers of 20MB (that is, 15MB pre-MIME), and I believe
we currently offer up to 150MB quotas by default (though a few hundred of
our users currently have 200MB quotas which we used as a "carrot" to
get them to beta-test the murder code last year).

-Rob

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