<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div>On 9/07/12 11:53 AM, "Ian Henderson" <<a href="mailto:ianh@ianh.net.au">ianh@ianh.net.au</a>> wrote:</div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><blockquote id="MAC_OUTLOOK_ATTRIBUTION_BLOCKQUOTE" style="BORDER-LEFT: #b5c4df 5 solid; PADDING:0 0 0 5; MARGIN:0 0 0 5;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">Because they don't have a convenient method of transferring large files between departments/orgs?</span></blockquote></span><div><br></div><div>Just how big was the data we are talking about there that they chose to send it via DVD? It is reported to be 8,000 subscribers, with usernames, email addresses, memorable phrases and passwords. Being overly generous and allowing varchar(255) for each field, that is 1kB of information per subscriber. So what else was in the dataset to warrant it being sent via DVD through the postal system?</div><div><br></div><div>-- </div><div>Aaron</div></body></html>