Re: [SAGE] choosing the proper max SMTP message size

["Tom Limoncelli" <tal@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 3, 2008 6:18 PM, Brad Knowles <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> That's a process solution, not a technical one.

That's my area of expertise, dude! :)

> Unless you're going to
> allow unlimited size messages, there are still going to have to be
> technical measures you have to take and parameters that are going to
> have to be changed on a regular basis.
>
> And specifying 10% aggregate growth per month in your total disk space
> as your "permanent solution" isn't likely to make the bean counters or
> "annual budgetists" very happy.

I've had very different experience.  The bean counters I dealt with
would prefer to spend less money, but know that's not possible for a
growing service.  The alternatives are to be able to spend a
predictable amount of money, or to be surprised with sudden, emergency
requests.  They prefer to be able to predict things.  In fact, I
remember one time where promising to spend X per quarter rather than
surprising the finance people made them positively giddy.

In fact, all the business plans I've seen that propose "renting" disk
storage were always selling to the finance people, not the technical
people.

Tom