RE: Use of IFS

Small sidebar.  On domino you have to tell it to use shared email on the 
server.  Otherwise it does it separately.  Shared will save disk.  But 
there are a lot of cons and it's outside the scope of this list.

Rob Berendt
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FWIW, most modern email systems (Exchange & Domino, for instance), when
confronted with a message sent to more than one user, store a single
copy of the message and place pointers to that message in each
recipient's mail file/folder.  That way, space is conserved.  Bandwidth
may also be conserved depending on the replication strategy (email
server to client) being used.

Also, how necessary is an audit trail for the reports?  Emailed links
are pretty much worthless but emailed content creates an audit trail
based on your email retention policy and whatever messaging retention
periods your company is legally required to follow.

John A. Jones
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-----Original Message-----
From: Rich Duzenbury [mailto:rduz-midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2004 2:22 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Use of IFS

On Sun, 2004-06-27 at 13:11, pnelson@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> OK. Dumb question. Is there a particular reason that you don't want to

> just email the reports to the users rather than clogging up your disk 
> with reports that may never be reviewed?

As a general answer, there is at least one good reason to not e-mail
reports willy-nilly.   Say I've got a 500 page report, and I have 100
users that want to see it.  If I email it, I just e-mailed 50,000 pages.

For large reports, I would rather store them once on the server, and
e-mail a link to the report to the 100 users.  If all 100 view the
report, then I've sent the 50,000 pages anyway.  If only 10 view the
report (more likely it seems), I've got a real bandwidth savings.

Now the only trouble is to decide how long to archive the report.  If
it's transient data, I can probably reclaim the disk space in a few
days.  If it needs to be kept around for a few weeks, perhaps the IFS is
ok.  If it needs to be kept around for quite awhile (months/years), I
should move it from the IFS to some kind of a COLD system.

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Rich

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