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Originally Posted by foreverwar
Whilst disk and hardware prices have gone down considerably in the last few years, trying to give 3 million customers 6GB each (18,000 Terabytes of disk, not including any mirroring or duplication for backup), would be a little (actually a lot) expensive.  |
Don't forget it's most likely compressed at their end, and since everything in an email (inc attachments) is encoded as text it probably compresses very well indeed