The UK government saying "delete old emails" to save water. 🤦♂️
Most emails average about 50k of storage even for someone who gets a lot of attachments, and will have exactly zero effect on data center consumption.
"Don't use cryptocurrency" and "don't use generative AI" would of course be thousands of times more effective.
@geoffl How many of your emails contain an attachment?
How many are just text or HTML?
@MichaelTBacon Loads have PDFs, docx, increasing large photos, etc, attached. Others are HTML with company logos and product marketing shots embedded. I get very few that are just text.
This morning one from a government department has a 350kB picture. Another from my bank has a 600kB image and with all the other html and graphics totals 1.2MB. At least ebay make an effort to minimise picture size but a saved search emails still contains multiple images 20-40kB each plus logos and graphics.
@geoffl I'm aware of how attachments work, thanks,.
I used to be in the business of running an email system for a very large organization. The average message size for most normal organization is around 50-60k, with the vast majority of messages being under 10k but the average being pulled up by attachments.
@MichaelTBacon You asked. Almost none of the email I recieve is anywhere near that small. I haven't recieved a text only email for several weeks.
Since my last reply I've recieved another email. This time with 3 x ~850kB images and 4 others ~60kB embedded.
I'm a very light user of email and I have 45GB of it across gmail and proton.
Michael Bacon
groff 🇺🇦