[afren] Bandwidth management and email filtering

[Martin Belcher]

[apologies for any cross posting]

INASP and Aptivate recently published some research findings on the bandwidth management potential impact of remote email filtering that might be of interest to those on these lists faced with bandwidth management problems.  Some interesting statistics and recommendations:

# Webmail is heavily used in many institutions. An email read via Webmail uses far more bandwidth than one read using the local service. If Webmail is blocked during working hours, this could result in a bandwidth saving of up to 20%.

# Remote Filtering used in conjunction with blocking Webmail, may result in a bandwidth saving of up to 30%.

The full report is available from:

http://www.aptivate.org/Projects.RemoteEmailFilteringReport.html

Cheers,

Martin 

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