Someone in the past week asserted that, at $1000 a gig, one could store all of a year's worth of mail headers from the Internet backbone for under ~$8.7 million. (8700 gigs of data, I presume?) Sorry, I don't remember who it was, but I have some questions: 1) Where can I find an estimate of the mail volume on the net? 2) Are there any projections of internet usage (subscribers, mail users, etc.) over the next several years? I plan on holding an educational session on net legal issues, and I would like to point out the $8.7 million/year price tag on a mail header archive (scary potentials, to say the least), but I would like some sources to back me up if I assert it. Can anyone help me out? I'd really appreciate it. -john. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ John Blair <jdblair@nextsrv.cas.muohio.edu> phone: (513) 529-4879 Insert cool signature file that makes a trendy, yet bold and original statement about my cyberspace proficiency, then mentions that I'll send you my PGP public key if you want it, and you trust that I'm actually me.