Statistics on remail message sizes

[L. Todd Masco]

In article <9408291623.AA29767 at ah.com>, Eric Hughes <hughes at ah.com> wrote:
>Based on Hal's numbers, I would suggest a reasonable quantization for
>message sizes be a short set of geometrically increasing values,
>namely, 1K, 4K, 16K, 64K.  In retrospect, this seems like the obvious
>quantization, and not arithmetic progressions.  Live and learn.

A brief suggestion:  Code the progression, not the four values.  As
 time goes on (and lossy sendmails disappear), people are sending larger
 and larger messages;  it's easily conceivable that people could be
 swapping multiMB files at some point in the not too distant future
 (indeed, I do occasionally send out files that are 4-5 MB large,
 uuencoded binaries and tar files).

No point in limiting future behavior due to current usage.
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