[38090] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Email Parcel Post is Good!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Maxwell)
Tue May 29 07:41:41 2001
Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 07:36:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: Greg Maxwell <gmaxwell@martin.fl.us>
To: Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
Cc: "'Andrew Brown'" <atatat@atatdot.net>, <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Fri, 25 May 2001, Roeland Meyer wrote:
[snip]
> Business moves at Internet speeds these days, in case you hadn't noticed.
Including going out of bussiness at Internet speeds.
> To put it in a way even understandable to techies;
>
> Collaborrative document, updated and swapped between 4 authors, and
> reviewed by two others, widely separated geo-physically. Revised and
> rewritten 5 times per day, for a week (Not counting NetMeetings). Trust me,
> management does work this way.
Servers overloaded, underconfigured, running out of disk space. SMTP
poorly suited to file transfer: 35% bandwidth and storage overhead.
> Process run-time, with email = 1 week; with FedEx = 1 month.
Email spools fill. Process never completes, impacts dozens of other
projects, hundreds of other employees.
> Process cost (transit only), with email <= $20, with FedEx = $4500 (FedEx =
> very happy)
Tens of thousands of dollars in lost productivity caused by forcing an
infrastructure to do what it wasn't designed to do.
> Real cost; Deal is blown out because deliverable is three weeks late.
> Instant lost revenue.
Real cost; Not only is the deal blown, but others too.
> > my opinion.
>
> opinion: invalid.
Your analysis: Short sighted.
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