This Ars-Technica article sheds a lot of light on what happened here.
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For comparison, I have over 8GB of emails in my Outlook PST file, & I work for a mid-size engineering firm.
For Starters:
Quote:Exchange and Outlook (at least as the IRS implemented them until 2011) are at the heart of the IRS e-mail fiasco. Prior to the Lerner e-mail episode, the agency’s IT department placed a 150MB limit on each users’s mailbox (today, IRS employees have a 500MB cap on their e-mail). To keep mailboxes within size limits, employees were told to archive e-mails locally in Outlook .PST mailbox files—including messages that they thought met the definition of “official correspondence” for retention purposes.
For comparison, I have over 8GB of emails in my Outlook PST file, & I work for a mid-size engineering firm.
"How is it that a lame man does not annoy us while a lame mind does? Because a lame man recognizes that we are walking straight, while a lame mind says that it is we who are limping." - Pascal
