Maybe if it was flawless <| sep |> The way you worded it originally implied you were saying it was a waste of your bandwidth at your location , not a major corporations bandwidth . Considering everything in your original statement about bandwidth contained complaints about inbox space and audio alerts which are outside of Steam ' s control . Now that I understand you mean it is a waste of Steam ' s bandwidth let me take you on a journey of numbers . If you go , and select USA where Valve is headquartered . You ' ll see that it represents 19 . 4 % of Steam ' s Global Traffic , serving 34 . 7 PB of data in the past 7 days . These are the numbers that were shown at the time of writing this . 34 . 7 PB divided by 7 days is about 4 . 95 PB Or 4900 TB per day from just the US . 6 . 2 TB The number you have provided as possible mail traffic from Steam divdied by 4900 TB 0 . 001265 . Or just less than 0 . 13 % of Steam ' s bandwidth from just the US . But lets just make sure we are being as fair as possible and make sure we really understand what is going on . Lets say they send 10 times the email you say they do . 62 TB of email . at 4900 TB for just shy of 20 % of their global bandwidth , times that by 5 gives us roughly 24 , 500 TB of global traffic . 62 TB divided by 24500 TB 0 . 00253 . Even at 10 times the amount of email you estimated , that would only account for ONE QUARTER OF ONE PERCENT 0 . 25 % of Steam ' g GLOBAL Traffic in a day . Leaving 99 . 75 % for other Steam Things . This makes the amount of bandwidth that it is taking , at least for Steam as a company , very insignificant . Lastly , kind of rude to call people clueless andor tell them to shut up . But it ' s okay and doesn ' t bother me if you have the need to get some aggression toward email out in a manner that is cathartic to you . I just hope we can continue to keep an open mind and open dialog to resolve any differences . Have a Happy Thanksgiving if you take part in that custom , if not have a Happy Thursday .