Leaving price out of it, I feel your pain as well.

Being a resource that is in a technical role, I find myself sending and receiving large attachments – drivers, software fixes, etc…. I hit the 300 meg limit rather swiftly.

The 30 day auto expire crap is utterly stupid… I’m surprised I’m the only one that brings that up here that has a Lenovo address.

The only way around both issues for me is setting up a rolling archive, that at 2am every evening archives every email that is 29 days old. I still run into space issues now and then if I don’t leave my machine on at night for a while.

How hard would it be for them to script that into every user setup so at least you would start with a working archive, and never lose a dam thing? I just copy the archive off my system every now and then for a raw backup…

Archive is now over 3 gig or so… So I suppose I should go into it and get rid of some stuff.

No thanks guys, I’ll defend my own media thank you…

http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/005486.html

You know, 10 years ago a server would have been big stuff sporting a terabyte of storage.

Ten years ago how big were our notebook and desktop HDDs? 2Gb, 4Gb if that? How big was windows 98 or 2000 OS? Now, the average software update patch is bigger than the average hard disk of the early 90′s. Windows OS is bigger than an entire HDD of 10 years ago. Applications are getting huge too.

The fact that the arbitrary limit hasn’t moved is insane. Not only has the volume of data grown, but the speed at which we blast it through the ether. Token what? 4/16mb? 10mb ethernet, 100mb, Gigbit.

Now that it’s my turn: local e-mail is a thing of the 90′s and should die a fast death. Everything is moving to online based. Bookmarks? Delicious. E-mail? Web-based clients. IM? Web-based clients. Storage? There are paid services; alternatively you can use a Google hack and upload files to your GMail account. E-mail yourself critical files that you need. Get your own web host & use FTP. RSS? Web-based clients.

This is of course on the small end of problems that modern corporations face. It is also of course much easier to implement a new system like this in a new organization – you take a large group of people entrenched in technology/policies from the 80′s and will find it a helluva time to get them to get past Win98-era stuff.

My email gets anything from text to PSDs to EPS and EXEs, 1 out of every 10 emails is larger than 5MBs. I hit my limit (and see my send mail ability blocked) twice per week. I have 3 DVDs worth of database backups plus an archive I keep filling until I hit the 3.5GB self-imposed maximum. This has its own set of disadvantages. Since I use 3 different PCs to work, and the archive sits on just one (plus the DVDs) I usually have to go and have 2 running at the same time. Since notes .nfs files are not very nice to open from one PC to the other, I often auto-send myself emails. It sucks.

I’ve been very tempted to forward everything to my Yahoo! mail (which has NO limit… nothing, zip, nada) but I assume that IT would be even more pissed if I do that.

And that’s just the tip of the Iceberg, one day I’ll write a book by the title “That Ugly Mother (curse word), Lotus Notes and I: a tale on how my life became miserable”