A r c h i v e d I n f o r m a t i o n
A warm welcome to Skip Buerger,the new Regional Director for EDNET Operations and Director of the Warm Site.
The Warm Site serves as a backup for the Department's main computer network in Washington, D.C.
Skip comes to us from the Atlanta, GA, area. Most recently, he worked for Hewlett-Packard as the Deployment Program Manager, implementing program/project management methodologies.
Steve Finch has joined OCIO as Telecom/Video Team Leader.
Steve comes from the Department of Defense where he did classified telecommunications services. He also was Video Teleconferencing program manager for Naval Air Systems for 12 years.
One of Steve's first tasks will be to determine how to manage several thousand phone moves and changes each year for the approximately 3,000 employees in the Washington, D.C. area.
Why is it that broadcast e-mail messages, sent to huge distribution lists, don't cause a major drain on network capabilities?
It's because the broadcast messages only reside on each server as a pointer to which individual e-mail mailboxes refer. According to the Exchange Team, it works like this: a single copy of each message resides on each server, regardless of size. A message of about 1 KB in size is sent to each recipient's mailbox. When a recipient opens the message, a copy of the message is presented to them. When a recipient deletes the message, it appears that a copy is in their deleted items folder, however, that is not the case. The original message is flagged to indicate that person has deleted the message. Once all users have deleted their ?link? to the message, then the original message will be deleted. While it doesn't cause a drain on the network, you still should avoid sending out excessively large e-mails.
