Students plagued by swarms of email and repeated "approaching quota" warnings are finally getting some relief. Individual email storage quota will double to 40 megabytes (MB), USG President Leslie-Bernard Joseph '06 announced in an email to students Monday night.
Undergraduate students may see the change as soon as after spring break, while graduate students will have to wait until the summer.
In the past, if students desired additional server space to store their email messages, they could purchase it. At current rates, an increase in email quota from 20 MB to 40 MB would cost $2.40 per year.
While the change in policy brings Princeton's quota in line with some peer institutions, the quota is still dwarfed by those of other schools.
Students at Harvard and Yale universities receive 40 and 25 MB, respectively, but students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Cornell University receive 250 and 300 MB each, respectively.
Class of 2007 Senator Alex Lenahan proposed the increase last month in response to student concerns.
"USG is the most powerful when change is initiated by the students," he said. "I sent out an email to my class and told them to contact me if they had ideas, and a student emailed me about this."
Lenahan contacted OIT and received an affirmative response Monday.
Rob Hazan '06, a computer science major, said he thought the increase in quota was appropriate and that 40MB was an acceptable limit "as long as you clean out your inbox once in a while."
"You shouldn't be storing big files in your emails," Hazan said. "If people want to send you large attachments, they should send it to you through a website or something like that."
Kent Cheng '06, another computer science major, welcomed the new quota, but added, "Disk space is so cheap — to the University it's nothing."
"I never seem to run out, but I usually clear my emails out onto my own computer," he said. "I guess if students want to keep every email since frosh year, it would be useful to have 200MB."
Joseph said that the new quota is a welcome improvement.
"We just had a 100 percent increase. Our inboxes are 20 MB better off than they were before," he said. "I'm proud of Alex's hard work and that he got an increase so quickly in the first place."
OIT officials could not be reached to comment on the change in policy.
— Includes reporting by Princetonian Senior Writer Neir Eshel.
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