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Google's Gmail To Offer 1GB E-mail Storage?
tstoneman writes "Wow, according to the New York Times (free reg. req.), looks like Google is really trying to push the envelope by offering 1 GB free storage for e-mail users via a service called Gmail, still in the testing phase, so that users never need to change their e-mail address. In addition, they want to offer their searching capabilities so that users can search through their entire set of e-mail, I guess forever. CNET News also has more details." Update: 04/01 02:38 GMT by S : The Google site now has an official press release, naturally dated April 1st.
I will sign up for 1000 accounts and get a free terabyte storage system.
Why not Moogle?
meep
I wasn't quite sure how to test my new internet connection. Now, I can see if my Pigeon Subscriber Line can really trasnfer a gig of spam in an hour.
http://www.beyourowneviloverlord.tk
http://www.frozenchickenthrowing.tk
http://www.killercamel.tk
Almost a week's worth
Now I can archive all of those viagra offers and search through them to find the best deal! YAY!!
Wait...froogle already lets me do that
1GB? Why I remember when 640K was enough for any man. It was 19diggity-2. We had to call it diggity, cuz the Kaiser had stolen our word for twnety. Now then......
Trained pigeons can do wonders... even against spam. Considering the amount of spam reaching relays, I'm thinking about buying stock from the company that breed google's pigeons.
Pros:
t ters :)
Google speed
Runs Linux!
1gb free storage for all your old mails
Cons: Your buddies can do a simple:
http://www.google.com/search?q=john+smith+love+le
to pull up all your old mushy emails to your ex-girlfriend
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Shouldn't they call this Gig-gle?
Don't go to a brothel if you want to buy broth
1 GB ought to be good enough for anybody
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Uh, yeah, the New York Times is printing a hoax. Right.
You will set up a GMail account.
You will use it for all your email.
You will point all your current email accounts to it, and have them copy all their traffic to it.
When we give you the opportunity, you will also upload all of your personal files for long term storage. All documents, archives, images, videos, spreadsheets, code, presentations, everything.
You will encourage all of your friends and relatives to do likewise.
You will zealously promote this as a Good Thing. Secure. Safe. Reliable. Trustworthy. Good.
When I snap my fingers, you will immediately go out and do all of these things. You will feel great happiness and satisfaction. If you are male, you will have erections during about 80% of your waking hours for the next 12 months, as long as you are carrying out these tasks. If you are female, the sight of anyone you like or feel even slightly attracted to will give you a rush and make you wet, also during the next 12 months only as long as you carry out these tasks. People you like a lot will make you gush like a fountain. You will need to stock up on panty liners.
I hate to burst everyone's bubble, but this is definitely an April first prank. Just look a the title: "'Heck yeah!' say Google founders." Hoax-o-rama.
And, come on, doesn't "GMail" sound a bit too much like "She-Male"?
Google does not use many HDD's, the storage will be on RAM drives, reboots will be performed every night at 2 am to free up space.
Saying Java is nice because it works on all OS's is like saying that anal sex is nice because it works on all genders.
So not only will Google put Spam in my legit mail, my Spam will have Spam? Odd.
"Well Mr. Jones, it seems as though you're awfully interested in increasing your penis size for some pre-teen lolitas.. What do you have to say for yourself?"
Guilty as charged? I do love them pre-teen lolitas... oh wait a minute!
Seriously though, if you are worried about email being evidence against you later down the road, DELETE IT! And if that isn't enough, what the hell are you doing sending sensitive info over non-encrypted email? I mean if it is that big of a deal, the evil gov't will just take your home email server and re-create the disks anyhow, so what is your point?
- I love animals. I try to eat at least one a day.
dear google,
:)
i love you. please listen.
please allow for pop and imap connections to your new web mail.
i love you baby, but you have to do this if you want to keep me.
sincerely,
your smiley face,
What comes first, finding a teacher or becoming a student?
ok, I'll go mod myself down now....
Bill Stewart
New Fast-Compression-only CPR http://preview.tinyurl.com/dy575ks
You must work for a hard drive manufacturer.
Hehe.
~Dalcius
Rome wasn't burnt in a day.
Werd!
Seriously though, I'm sure that an explosion in piracy would cause Google to require a SSN, Driver's License number, thumbprint and a blood sample to set up an account.
LK
"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
It specifically address spam in the third bullet point: "And it turns annoying spam e-mail messages into the equivalent of canned meat."
Would it take to fill up 1 Gig of space with spam. My Yahoo account only took 1 month to fill with spam... I know we can have a race!
- Your stupidity got you into this mess, why can't it get you out? -Will Rogers
I, for one, welcome our Google overlords.
Now I know where all the old 5 MB IBM full-size 5 1/4" HD's went when the 3 1/2" size came out.
why on Earth would I consider being dead and having people look at my private messages "cool" ?
...but i serisouly have no clue how that could remain profitable,...
And in unrelated news, Google has won a multi-billion dollar contract with NSA for its cooperation in setting up and maintaining an "information storage and retrieval facility" dedicated to national security and total information awareness purposes...
A dingo ate my sig...
don't tell anyone taht way hotmail and yahoo will announce increases in their storage limits ;>
This post patent pending.
You mean theres a living, breathing watcher of anime who is female? My prayers are answered! Praise Allah!
Google: "You are all individuals."
Slashdot: "We are all individuals. Now, about a gig of email."
Google: "It's just a joke. April's Fools? It's April, you're fools."
Slashdot: "I do not think you have properly examined all the possible avenues for abuse--"
Google: "IT'S A JOKE. IT'S A FUCKING JOKE. DO YOU NOT HAVE A SENSE OF HUMOR?"
Slashdot: "--where someone can use this tremendous amount of space for genera file storage in an attempt--"
Google: "Joke. Wokka wokka? Hey, look, SCO is threatening IP litigation!"
Slashdot: "--to,WHAT? Where? Quickly, man your posts..."
Someone asked if I had patched against MSBlast; I said yes, I installed Linux.
Do Slashdot subscribers get their April Fools content on March 31st?
A few weeks ago I met some fellow high school girls (from my very school, no less) that watched Anime. Well, I had seen them before, but I didn't know they were Anime fans since they don't run around wearing Gundam t-shirts. Anyway, they were discussing quirks of Japanese culture and the prevalence of tentacles.
I met some fellow high school girls
Whoa, should have previewed that more carefully. To be more clear: I met some fellow high schoolers who were girls...
I didn't have aol very much but a lot of people I knew did and I had heard about the rampant warez trading. I remember once being at a friend's house who had AOL and I wanted to mess around with it, we joined a couple of chat rooms and stuff, and I was like, I wonder if there's a huge private chatroom called "warez"? So I typed in warez and tried to join a chat, and was in the room for all of 2 seconds before I was kicked out of the room and the computer disconnected. When my friend went to reconnect it wouldn't let him, and it cited TOS violations as the reason. He had no idea what warez meant, but he thought it was hilarious that I got him locked out of his AOL account for abusing the system within seconds by typing a single word.
We seem to have slashdotted google. Im getting wierd errors whenever I try to search for anything. Check it out for yourself. http://www.google.com
All misspellings and grammatical errors in the above post are intentional and part of my artistic expression.
Well my GF is watching more anime than i do...
*sniff* she even has more cpu-power on her systems
Forget that. What's funnier still is that they actually placed an ad for the lunar job in the adsense ads panel on the right! lol
Well, I had seen them before, but I didn't know they were Anime fans since they don't run around wearing Gundam t-shirts. Anyway, they were discussing quirks of Japanese culture and the prevalence of tentacles.
:-)
And you say this posting on April 1st?
May we never see th
Here ;-)
This is not my opinion. Actually, it's not even an opinion. And I'm nowhere to be seen near it
Me, 20 years ago:
"Shit, if this HD floppy can really put 1.44 MB of info on a single disk, storage space won't mean shit in 6-9 months."
Me, 10 years ago:
"Shit, if this Zip disk can really put 100MB of info on a single disk, storage space won't mean shit in 6-9 months."
Me, 5 years ago:
"Shit, if this CD-RW can really put 650MB of info on a single disk, storage space won't mean shit in 6-9 months."
Me, 1 year ago:
"Shit, if this DVD-RW can really put 4.9GB of info on a single disk, storage space won't mean shit in 6-9 months."