Discussion:
Percentages
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Peter Moylan
2024-12-11 02:43:59 UTC
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I get frequent e-mails from the pmoylan.org Team (I think that's me and
my cats) to say that my mailbox is full. The message includes this table.

Quota type Limit Used
Mailbox
Messages count 47940 1005 (99%)
cPanel Account
Disk space 99 GB 33 GB (99%)

Someone has a very strange idea of the meaning of 99%.
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Peter Moylan ***@pmoylan.org http://www.pmoylan.org
Newcastle, NSW
Aidan Kehoe
2024-12-11 07:32:35 UTC
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Post by Peter Moylan
I get frequent e-mails from the pmoylan.org Team (I think that's me and
my cats) to say that my mailbox is full. The message includes this table.
Quota type Limit Used
Mailbox
Messages count 47940 1005 (99%)
cPanel Account
Disk space 99 GB 33 GB (99%)
Someone has a very strange idea of the meaning of 99%.
Is the code that does that arithmetic from whoever provides your hosting, or is
it a more widely-used package? I presume you didn’t write it yourself, given
you’re posting about it rather than fixing it.
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‘As I sat looking up at the Guinness ad, I could never figure out /
How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’
(C. Moore)
Peter Moylan
2024-12-11 10:36:35 UTC
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Post by Aidan Kehoe
Post by Peter Moylan
I get frequent e-mails from the pmoylan.org Team (I think that's me and
my cats) to say that my mailbox is full. The message includes this table.
Quota type Limit Used
Mailbox
Messages count 47940 1005 (99%)
cPanel Account
Disk space 99 GB 33 GB (99%)
Someone has a very strange idea of the meaning of 99%.
Is the code that does that arithmetic from whoever provides your
hosting, or is it a more widely-used package? I presume you didn’t
write it yourself, given you’re posting about it rather than fixing
it.
I do my own hosting. (Run my own nameserver, web server, mail server,
etc.) The arithmetic is by the scammers who are pretending to be the
managers of the box that sits beneath my desk.

Or, as occam suggested, it might be one of my cats.
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Peter Moylan ***@pmoylan.org http://www.pmoylan.org
Newcastle, NSW
Hibou
2024-12-11 08:10:57 UTC
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Post by Peter Moylan
I get frequent e-mails from the pmoylan.org Team (I think that's me and
my cats) to say that my mailbox is full. The message includes this table.
Quota type     Limit     Used
Mailbox
Messages count    47940     1005 (99%)
cPanel Account
Disk space    99 GB     33 GB (99%)
Someone has a very strange idea of the meaning of 99%.
That's an error that is indenominable.
occam
2024-12-11 09:27:46 UTC
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Post by Peter Moylan
I get frequent e-mails from the pmoylan.org Team (I think that's me and
my cats) to say that my mailbox is full. The message includes this table.
Quota type     Limit     Used
Mailbox
Messages count    47940     1005 (99%)
cPanel Account
Disk space    99 GB     33 GB (99%)
Someone has a very strange idea of the meaning of 99%.
Alternatively, one of your cats is messing with you.
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