definition: messages per month?

Thu Sep 9 22:29:10 IST 2004

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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Hi everyone,<br>
<br>
It occurred to me that we may be using different definitions of the
word "messages" when referring to the number of messages our servers
process per month.<br>
<br>
I generally think of a single message as a single email, regardless of
the number of "to", "cc", or "bcc" recipients. But perhaps if a message
has 10 recipients, it should be classed as 10 messages? This becomes
particularly significant as one compares weekly and monthly volumes.<br>
<br>
For example, my server processed 4,980 total (</font><font
 face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">in and out) </font><font
 face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">"messages" (first definition), but
there were really 24,266 "messages" processed, once one takes into
account messages with multiple recipients.<br>
<br>
With this taken into account, where we were once thinking that by
comparison's sake, our server only processed about 115k messages per
month, the real number may be more like 575k.<br>
<br>
So, in the first case, I suppose I should be talking about "message
envelopes"? Or am I off base?<br>
<br>
What are other people's thoughts on this? <br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Chris<br>
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