its inconceivable that an ISP doesn't have some sort of employee portal /intranet site set up already. adding this menu there would be trivial.
Easier said than done. You have to setup a server/VM or w/e, put the file on it, then have the network guys forward the port to it. You will need to rip through so much red tape just to do this. It's really sad when you think about it but that's what it is.
Unless upper management thinks you need it, chances are you wont get it.
I work for an internet company and we have over $100 million in annual revenue. Anyway they sent an email out stating they could no longer email the cafeteria menu to all employees since the 3MB attachment is too large for our exchange servers which are running out of space.
I have personally sent attachments in our email that are over 20MB all the time. So the solution to this issue is for them to put the menu in the cafeteria and stop sending out the weekly menu.
How incompentent does that make my company look?
I asked him why they could not send out a text file with the menu or a link to the internal website with the menu.
He did not really answer that question. I cannot believe the VP lets his own employees get away with being lazy and not coming up with a proepr solution to the server space issue.
Wow, how many levels of fail is this?
Well I could see the problem with everyone in the company getting the same 3MB attachment and never deleting it, just sitting in their inbox on the server forever... Though seems like they could just send a link to view it online or text only.
So other 3MB+ attachments are still allowed right? Seems like the menu distribution was just rather inefficient to begin with ...
I work for an internet company and we have over $100 million in annual revenue. Anyway they sent an email out stating they could no longer email the cafeteria menu to all employees since the 3MB attachment is too large for our exchange servers which are running out of space.
I have personally sent attachments in our email that are over 20MB all the time. So the solution to this issue is for them to put the menu in the cafeteria and stop sending out the weekly menu.
How incompentent does that make my company look?
Easier said than done. You have to setup a server/VM or w/e, put the file on it, then have the network guys forward the port to it. You will need to rip through so much red tape just to do this. It's really sad when you think about it but that's what it is.
Exchange doesnt do SIS anymore. Since storage was so cheap and fast MS decided to go for speed over space savings. But yes this is not a bad thing because this never should have been allowed to happen in the first plac. Employees think that their inbox on the COMPANY's Exchange server is there when it is not.
no offense but your VP is probably laughing at this being brought to his attention. It's a cafeteria menu. Wait till there's a more serious issue about large attachments and it affects his bottom line. Or make it up.
By my count, at least three:
1. Company allows large, non business-critical emails to be sent to every employee.
2. Company apparently has intranet but people can't figure out how to post menus to it.
3. OP blames IT for something that should never have been allowed.
I work for an internet company and we have over $100 million in annual revenue. Anyway they sent an email out stating they could no longer email the cafeteria menu to all employees since the 3MB attachment is too large for our exchange servers which are running out of space.
I have personally sent attachments in our email that are over 20MB all the time. So the solution to this issue is for them to put the menu in the cafeteria and stop sending out the weekly menu.
How incompentent does that make my company look?
I actually talked to the VP of IT and called him on this and he said the servers are full and until we get to exchange 2010 and force 2GB mailbox limits there is no room. Today we have lots of employees using their mailbox as their archive instead of creating an archive file on their local PC.
I asked him why they could not send out a text file with the menu or a link to the internal website with the menu. He did not really answer that question. I cannot believe the VP lets his own employees get away with being lazy and not coming up with a proepr solution to the server space issue.
it's absolutely ridiculous to batch send a 3mb attachment that has no need for security.
just host the menu on a website, send out links to it.
why in gods name is this so tough?
I remember reading about an African Country that had spent millions running a fiber backbone for transfering large files of military information. One of the leaders of the project was up in arms at the cost, and had some comparison of the transfer rates using carrier pigeons. He basically used 8GB SD cards carried by pigeons and figured out it would cost 1/10th the price of the fiber line if they used carrier pigeons. And that by using large capacity cards it would take about the same time.Other options:
- Scanned and plopped right into a PDF. (Bonus points if they've embedded a bitmap.)
- Saved at 4000dpi, using stroked text instead of a font.
- The pictures haven't been downsampled when the document was saved.
- If it's PDF, the document software doesn't support any kind of compression. Adobe Acrobat Professional has a nice Reduce File Size feature, which can give some good results, depending of course on the content of the file.
If you mail someone a 3TB drive full of data, and it takes 3 full days to get there, that's a transfer rate of 11,574,074 bytes per second.
I think I'm going to start a new ISP. I'll do 2-day shipping on 10-packs of 3TB hard drives.
The pingtimes are terrible, but the net transfer rates are amazing.
I remember reading about an African Country that had spent millions running a fiber backbone for transfering large files of military information. One of the leaders of the project was up in arms at the cost, and had some comparison of the transfer rates using carrier pigeons. He basically used 8GB SD cards carried by pigeons and figured out it would cost 1/10th the price of the fiber line if they used carrier pigeons. And that by using large capacity cards it would take about the same time.
You don't just slap a couple of drives into an Exchange server to add space.
imagine how much space is being wasted on the exchange server by this and other similar emails.
for a 1000 person company, with weekly menu emails, that's 156 gigs a year. say this has been going on for 5 years, that's 780 GIGS of space wasted by a MENU.
that alone would have prevented space issues they're having.
I remember reading about an African Country that had spent millions running a fiber backbone for transfering large files of military information. One of the leaders of the project was up in arms at the cost, and had some comparison of the transfer rates using carrier pigeons. He basically used 8GB SD cards carried by pigeons and figured out it would cost 1/10th the price of the fiber line if they used carrier pigeons. And that by using large capacity cards it would take about the same time.