World's First 1GB Web Mail May Not Be From Google

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World's First 1GB Web Mail May Not Be From Google

Posted by timothy on Wednesday April 21, 2004 @05:11AM from the fancy-that dept.

xPertCodert writes "According to this article, the world's first 1GB web mail is not going to be Google, but from the largest Israeli web portal. With 30Mb per attachment, it seems to be quite useful as well. Looks like an idea of extra-large e-mail storage is becoming really hot these days."

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I wonder if they filter out... by SCSi · 2004-04-21 05:12 · Score: 5, Funny

attachments that end in .rar or .r[0-9][0-9] :) I swear, I was only "checking my email".
1. Re:I wonder if they filter out... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-04-21 07:29 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  An web e-mail service is not a very useful file sharing platform. Just like any time somebody posts a New York Times username/password on Slashdot, not soon after somebody logs onto said account and resets the password an e-mail address which steals the account and changes the locks on it.
  Surprising fact: data can be transferred from one email account to another.
ah extra room by jacquesm · 2004-04-21 05:14 · Score: 5, Funny

I really needed that for all that spam...
(is that kosher food ?)

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Spam by Anonymous Coward · 2004-04-21 05:15 · Score: 5, Funny

In other news, world's first 1gbyte spam messages began circulating late yesterday afternoon.
My Own Announcement by BandwidthHog · 2004-04-21 05:19 · Score: 5, Funny

I would like to announce that I am now the very first Slashdot user to point out that Spymac.com offers a 1GB email service. That's right, you heard it here first. (and, uhh, don't scroll up.)

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new spam by deep_in_thought · 2004-04-21 05:19 · Score: 2, Funny

H0w w0ul|) you leik a bigger àéé÷åðéí åøéðâèåðéí ?!? at least I wont be able to read my new spam
one problem by stuffedmonkey · 2004-04-21 05:21 · Score: 2, Funny

I signed up for an account, but now all my messages are showing up written right to left!
Is this a joke post? by stoolpigeon · 2004-04-21 05:22 · Score: 2, Funny

I just went to Spymac.com and there is nothing there but a dead server.

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Re:THERE IS NO WAY by Anonymous Coward · 2004-04-21 05:28 · Score: 2, Funny

Might as well paint a big red target on myself.

We won't try to stop you...
Lovely! by Eric_Cartman_South_P · 2004-04-21 05:30 · Score: 5, Funny

Instead of Google reading your e-mail, the Mossad will.
Re:Cute by Anonymous Coward · 2004-04-21 05:33 · Score: 1, Funny

you forgot...

e) run by jews
*irrelevant by TwistedGreen · 2004-04-21 05:48 · Score: 2, Funny

preview preview preview
Re:Israel? by McAddress · 2004-04-21 05:52 · Score: 5, Funny

I'm German, so I feel qualified to answer this comment. Given the choice between an Israeli webmailer and Google, I'd choose Google. Without taking into account features, performance, etc. etc. he picks Google based on the fact that the other one is from Israel. This is accurate? How is the fact that he is from Germany qualify him to post that?
Perhaps he meant that as a German, he was well qualified to make anti-semetic statements.
cut out redundancy... relational model by SethJohnson · 2004-04-21 05:54 · Score: 2, Funny

Follow the relational database model of data storage... For attachments and messages that are duplicates across many accounts, just store one copy and put pointers to that copy in each person's account. According to that article earlier this week, 30% of all email is spam, so right there, you can save 30% of your disk space by only storing one copy of each spam. And think of all the savings in virus attachments, too!

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Re:The battle has begun by Anonymous Coward · 2004-04-21 05:58 · Score: 1, Funny

Not too many, @goatse?!?!

You could sell those, even as dumbforwarders, for $9.95 on thinkgeek for crying-out-loud.
30 MB per attachment? by Maljin+Jolt · 2004-04-21 06:22 · Score: 2, Funny

THAT may give a completely new meaning to spam!

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Linux Box? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-04-21 08:25 · Score: 1, Funny

Wouldn't the worlds first 1GB webmail be whomever set up imp for themselves on a hard drive larger than 1GB?

Just wondering.

And Spymac already has 1GB email (redundant)
Re:So what? by yosemite · 2004-04-21 10:58 · Score: 2, Funny

I am confident that Gmail will be the only truly successful free gigabyte email service.

Give it 20 years when the cost per gig is nothing. Then everyone will have 20 gig email accounts and google will own your soul and all of your "conversations" or what ever they'll call email in 2024.
Re:Attachments? by SamSim · 2004-04-21 14:17 · Score: 2, Funny

scanners will skip over files over a certain size, but I'm sure the virus writers are eventually going to note this and start sending multi-megabyte virus files.

I had an idea about this, about making the largest, most comprehensively powerful, dangerous and unstoppable virus ever, giving it an innocuous name and distributing it via Kazaa. Nobody would suspect a 600MB file to be a virus!

Then I realised Windows had already been invented.

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