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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 03/26/2013 10:57 AM, Paul Gear
wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:5150F278.5080802@libertysys.com.au"
type="cite">Hi all, <br>
<br>
We have high-up non-technical people in our organisation asking
for a higher email message size limit. (Ours is set to 10 Mb,
which is the most common limit i've seen.) We've explained that
increasing our email system's limit won't solve the problem if
every other mail system has a similar limit, but the message isn't
getting through. <br>
<br>
If you have the information at your disposal, would you kindly
reply off-list with your current email size limit? I'm happy to
summarise the results for the list. <br>
<br>
If there's a better place to ask this, or if someone has already
collated this data for most Australian ISPs, please feel free to
point me to the right place. <br>
<br>
Thanks in advance, <br>
Paul <br>
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Hi everyone,<br>
<br>
I've been overwhelmed at the speed, quantity, and quality of your
responses. Thanks very much.<br>
<br>
A soft summary: it seems that those of us on 10 MB or less are
behind the times, mostly thanks to gmail.<br>
<br>
Now for the hard numbers:<br>
<ul>
<li>Total responses: 45</li>
<li>Numerically quantifiable responses (excludes ambiguous
answers, and two with no limits on their email system): 41</li>
<li>Mean: 29.098 [1]<br>
</li>
<li>Median: 25 [2]<br>
</li>
<li>Mode: 20 [3]<br>
</li>
<li>Standard deviation: 20.258 (Do statisticians call this a "WTH
distribution"? It's clearly not a normal one.)</li>
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</style>There were some really interesting comments along with the
numbers, particularly in the AusNOG thread:<br>
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<li><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://lists.ausnog.net/pipermail/ausnog/2013-March/017617.html">http://lists.ausnog.net/pipermail/ausnog/2013-March/017617.html</a></li>
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I'd also like to publish some of the comments i received off-list.
Because i said i would summarise the results for the lists, i'm
going to assume that anyone who emailed me directly will be happy to
be quoted anonymously. However, if any of you feel strongly that
you don't want your comments to be used, please reply to the message
you sent me stating so. I'll give it 24 hours before i throw up the
comments on Google Drive. Once i've published this, i'll keep it up
to date with any updated responses i receive.<br>
<br>
Thanks again for the responses - i count it a privilege to be part
of such helpful and expert online communities!<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Paul<br>
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Notes for those who didn't study statistics, forgot it, or failed
the course at uni due to apathy (i'm in the last group):<br>
[1] Mean == average (pretty much). <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic_mean">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic_mean</a><br>
[2] Median == middle result when arranged in numeric order. <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median</a><br>
[3] Mode == most common answer. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_%28statistics%29">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_%28statistics%29</a><br>
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