MBOX-Line: From janssen at parc.com  Sun Jul 12 14:44:05 2009
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Bill Janssen <janssen@parc.com>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:42 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] off-topic:  stats on mail duplication,
	mailing list sizes, etc?
Message-ID: <97903.1247435045@parc.com>

Folks,

Please forgive this somewhat off-topic message.  I'm looking for more
funding to work on my UpLib IMAP server implementation.  UpLib stores
all messages in a DB, and uses tags for folders, thus storing only one
copy of messages that might occur in multiple folders, or are stored by
multiple users.  I'm interested in figuring some strawman stats about
email duplication that could be addressed by a site-wide IMAP server.
For example, how many mailing lists an "average" organization has; the
average number of users per mailing list; the average message traffic
(in both messages and bytes) per day, per week, per year.  I know that a
number of you have actual experience with this.  I'd be grateful for any
pointers.

Thanks.

Bill

