.sigs (Was Re: [LINK] surface)

[COLLETT Martin]

Adam,

Your facts and figures are interesting; however, I am sure Government
really doesn't give a hoot about them.  Surely your own experiences will
account for this.

Regardless of whether you are passionate about the extra characters sent
(or not), the government feels it has an obligation to protect itself
from everything (and in some cases nothing).  It is all about the
governance regulation imparted as part of the journey of learning and
the paranoia of government institutions.

Equally, some may indicate that your own impact on the number of
characters imparted within emails to be excessive, costly and, in some
case, inappropriate.  Perhaps this is just another calculation made,
based upon assumption and ill-informed telecommunication rates (or maybe
not!).

Anyway; in respect of lessons learnt: Regarding your financial matters,
these should be kept private and not aired amongst the group; no-one
should be concerned by your financial status - it does not make you all
less of a person (does it?).  At the same time, I am also sure that your
children will be well educated regardless of your level of income - this
is a reflection of the type of person you appear to be.

Warm Regards, Martin

-----Original Message-----
From: link-bounces at anumail0.anu.edu.au
[mailto:link-bounces at anumail0.anu.edu.au] On Behalf Of Adam Todd
Sent: Friday, 1 June 2007 2:09 PM
To: Ivan Trundle; Link Institute
Subject: Re: .sigs (Was Re: [LINK] surface)


Think of all those carbon emissions that were used to send something 
utterly useless!

Ivan you are right!  Those electrons are costing the consumer and tax 
payer!  It might seem like it's only 1415 characters in this instant, 
but how many staff are in that department?  Say 100 for easy math.

How many emails do they send a day, internally and externally?  Lets 
say 20 each, I'm sure it's more.

So that's 2000 messages a day consisting of 1415 characters (not 
including overheads such as packet headers which the signature only 
just fits into the ethernet packet at 1456 bytes, so it's a whole 
packet that is wasted.)

2000 messages x 1415 bytes = 2.83 MB's a day.

Is 1,032.95 megabytes a year.

The cost to move that data at data rates say on Telstra's Mobile 
Broadband is $1.65 per megabyte. So it's costing $1704.36 to do nothing
at all.

If there are 1000 staff in the department that becomes $17,043.60 a 
year, the junior wage for a 16 year old and more than I get on my 
pension and I still have a wife and four kiddies to cover!

If the department has 10,000 staff, that's a $170,436.00 a year which 
is really more than 5 times the Poverty rate.

Maybe the IT department could reduce the sig footer by say 50% and 
send the budget benefit to me :)  It would be going to a very good 
cause, educating four little children who will in the future change 
the country!

At 12:42 PM 31/05/2007, Ivan Trundle wrote:
>This must be a record on Link:
>
>1,415 characters, 204 words, 15 lines - all for a footer to a text
>response that consisted of less than 300 characters.
>
>Martin: have you considered asking if your department would
>reconsider the savings in bytes and electrons that might occur if the
>department adopted a sensible .sig? We could turn off at least one
>coal-fired generator by my back-of-envelope calculations.

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