Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...aware of the slowdowns that users have been noticing over the past several weeks," Osterberg wrote in an e-mail message. " The fundamental technical issue is that we don't have enough capacity in the storage system...
However, lately there has been a general increase in the use of e-mail, according to Steen--and the pattern of student use can be especially burdensome...
First, in the last year, not only has the volume of e-mail increased by 30 percent, but the average memory size of e-mail has doubled as people send more graphics, documents and music files over the Internet...
Another reason for the slowdown is large e-mail inboxes. Every time a person logs into the Pine mail program, his or her inbox is accessed. Bigger inboxes take longer to open and thus put more stress on the server...
When students leave their telnet windows open even when they are not using e-mail, the program automatically refreshes every five minutes. Leaving the window open is thus the same as checking e-mail every five minutes, which burdens the server...