The problem is compounded by users not knowing exactly what it is that they’re storing/transmitting/archiving, and not caring enough to push for something leaner and more accessible.
It is also sad to see people deleting things to “make space” within some quota, when a massive amount of storage is clearly caused by unnecessarily-bloated files. How do you convince them to abandon the only editors that are familiar to them? How do you make plain text the new default?
People seem to like cracking open Word, typing a couple paragraphs and “sending that” to everyone. They don’t realize the kitchen sink comes with it. In the old days, sending large file attachments to an entire organization could be a disaster. If the server wasn’t very smart then it encoded and COPIED some monstrous Word file to everybody’s Inbox. And copied it again for reply-all. Inboxes would run out of disk space because E-mail sizes were insane! It was really frustrating to see that the amount of useful content was so small compared to the footprint.
It is also sad to see people deleting things to “make space” within some quota, when a massive amount of storage is clearly caused by unnecessarily-bloated files. How do you convince them to abandon the only editors that are familiar to them? How do you make plain text the new default?
People seem to like cracking open Word, typing a couple paragraphs and “sending that” to everyone. They don’t realize the kitchen sink comes with it. In the old days, sending large file attachments to an entire organization could be a disaster. If the server wasn’t very smart then it encoded and COPIED some monstrous Word file to everybody’s Inbox. And copied it again for reply-all. Inboxes would run out of disk space because E-mail sizes were insane! It was really frustrating to see that the amount of useful content was so small compared to the footprint.