Mailbox sizing

Interesting / fun piece over at secretGeek about mailbox size limits. 

Some thoughts:

1) 1GB of storage for a corporate e-mail account?!? Pretty generous, IMO. Just where does this individual work, and how many people are employed there?

2) If you have 1GB of space and you can’t keep things pruned, you’ve got issues, bub.

3) I get less than 100MB of space*. IIRC:  when I hit *that* number, I get warnings.  When hit a number a bit over 100MB, I am prevented from sending e-mail.  When I hit ~200MB, my mailbox starts rejecting inbound mail.    while I would like to see my limit bumped to 100MB (or maybe a little more), I think I deal with it pretty well.  I archive regularly, and have several PSTs (which, admittedly, can be a pain to tote around…and they're just more line items on my backup plan). 

How much utter crap must one have to clog 1GB?!?  Good Grief.

-Nino

*I know that the initial number I get warnings at is 85MB.  The other numbers I mentioned are SWAG, but I think that they are close – I haven’t experienced them firsthand because I actively archive. My employer has more than 3700 employees [mailboxes] worldwide, hence consideration for the amount of storage allotted to each of us.