[mythtv-users] Leaving...

[Francesco Peeters]

Allen Edwards wrote:
>> This service is being provided free of charge by the MythTv people.
>> How incredibly arrogant to just dismiss their requests as to how
>> you use it!
>>     
>
> I in no way want to wast anyones resources particularly ones
> generously provided by the good people at mhthtv.  I am sorry if I
> offended anyone.
>
> Just for a sanity check.  Are you aware that all the email from this
> list for the last year would fit on under 2 cents worth of HD
> space?[1] and would take the space to record about 2 minutes of HD OTA
> video?
>
> Before you call someone arrogant for wasting something, you should
> check if there really was something wasted.
>
> Allen
>
> [1] I deleted all email from my account except the mythtv messages
> that I have saved for 11 months.  Google reported that the space used
> was 129MB.  1T disk cost $100 so it is $0.10 per GB or .13 cents for
> 11 months of messages.
>   
But you - again - forgot to factor in Bandwidth costs, which are much 
higher than disk storage costs for the same amount of data...

Just my € 0.02 worth... ;-)

--FP