[cynwoody]

20-30,000 pages doesn't mean 20-30,000 separate e-mails.

Yes, it does. It's plain English. It's either true or false. And, if false, the utterer is a liar.

The volume suggests that document attachments were an important part of the traffic.

You raise an interesting point. Presumably, any attachments would have been graphic in nature (stills or moving). Graphic is always the best kind of attachment! The higher the resolution the better!

But an email with attachments still counts as one email, just as an email without attachments (e.g., "Date tonight? Under the desk?") counts as one.

[okie01]

Yes, it does. It's plain English.

Er, the report was "20 to 30,000 pages". That's plain English.

It was not "20 to 30,000 e-mails".