-Technology consultants will tell you that it is not unusual for each employee to receive 30+ emails a day.
-If a company employs 1,000 workers, this adds up to 210,000 emails each week or 10.9 million each year
-If a company employs 10,000 employees, this adds up to 2.1 million emails each week or 109 million each year 100,000 employees create 21 million e-mails each week or over 1 billion a year

-More than 35% of corporate communications will never reach paper
-Up to 40% is non-business communication
- About 18% of emails contain attachments - each attachment being a new discoverable object
-About 8% of emails are broadcasts, email messages sent to more than one person

Active v. Inactive data:

Active = live data, currently being used, currently on hard drives, databases, servers, etc.

Active data is easy to search and can be searched using the Boolean techniques familiar to users of Westlaw or Lexis.

Inactive = stored data, usually on backup tapes, perhaps in a warehouse, perhaps far away; perhaps made with software applications and operating systems that are no longer in use or, possibly, no longer in possession.

Inactive data is much more difficult to search, as that data is not stored in any logical or easily searchable way, and is therefore more expensive and more time-intensive. Why? Because inactive data must be returned to active data status before it can be searched. This means finding unused computer capactiy to accommodate it and finidng the software the generated it so that it can be read.