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World's First 1GB Web Mail May Not Be From Google
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."
First 1GB email service? First of all, what is Spymac, chopped liver? They already have a free email service with 1GB of storage.
I'm going to issue a press release... I will be the first person to send data over phone lines. Maybe it will be hardware you install in your computer! Buy my stock!
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What about Spymac?
--------- Who knows? It is a mystery.
Spymac already offers 1Gig Email for free. Gmail's conversations sound like the most useful feature of their service. beta review
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Walla! As of ten seconds ago, lack an english version of their site. That could make registering a bit problematic for some. Too bad xPertCodert didn't have a funny mailto: in their submission pointing to @walla.com :p
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If you did then you would understand why they are a non factor. (HINT: if you can't read hebrew, you probley won't find much use from their portal.)
Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.
I was in the same boat as you for years I had about a gig of mail. Then my provider decided to enforce quota's without telling anytbody. The deleted all the oldest mail till my account was under 100 megs. It was a fight to get them to resore it so i could at least get a more recent backup and move eveything to a different server. To many providers just think it's all spam nobody will notice. I have an inbox full of PDF's and Fax Tiffs.
I guess it was all for the best I reduced my service to email forwarding and ran everythign through my own servers complete with spam assasin.
No sir I dont like it.
Not all types of SPAM are made out of pork. See:
http://www.spam.com/sp/sp_ort.htm
Now, listen. Google's email service is not about the one-gigabyte limit.
Ok, so it's a huge number, and so everybody seems to have stared themselves blind at it, and missed the print underneath.
Google's email service is about having your email searchable. About retrieving old email by searching for a part of it. About eliminating the need for folders, dates, keywords to remember your mail. About a all-in-one-bucket, always-available mail store, that's accessed by searching rather than sorting and browsing.
Forget about the one-gigabyte limit. That's just tweaking parameters that others already have. It's nothing really innovative.
What's really new is their entire approach.
Hotmail has McAfee, Indie-Mail has McAfee. GMail will no doubt have something similar. However when MyDoom came out my e-mail server was deleting those virus e-mails before the virus scanner was. If you look in the filter list on the Indie-Mail web-site one of the entries is a long string of letters and numbers. That's the signiture I found and used to kill off MyDoom before the VirusScan was updated and took care of it, itself.
The problem with spam protection is that you can't be overly agressive when you're dealing with other people's e-mail. That's why I only use URL filtering. It's very effective and inflicts no collateral damage. The downside is that it has to be manually maintained. But I have enough of the process automated that it's not that big of a deal. It's about 15 minutes of my time every few days to update the filter.
GMail will no doubt be utilizing it's search technology to analyze e-mails reported as spam to make it's system more effective and more automated.
Ben
Work Safe Porn
I have an email address at spymac. It works. At least as a normal email address. Attachment upload speed is very poor though, so I haven't really had the chance to test it out as a 1GB account.
Their service is real and works fine. I have an account: greengeek AT spymac DOT com. However, the problem with their service is due to the fact that they were once a very small mac-users forum/service. When Google made their announcement, spymac gained notoriety for having a 1 gig email service up and running already. Their subscriber base jumped from They got /.ed and farked, as well as having articles in several mac sites and I think zdnet or cnet too. Also, most of the services of the site are still very new, some are still in "beta" and are lacking features. They are deserving of pity for the raping of their bandwidth and servers, but they probably should have expected it too.
I strongly recommend you read Google's Gmail FAQ rather than asking Slashdot users :-). They answer this question VERY clearly.
They're going to pay for the space by putting AdSense ads next to some emails, based on the user's emails. Just like how they pay for the Google search.
It's possible that the result will be more valuable than the search ads for them, since they'll have more information based on which to target the ads, so advertisers will have a higher response rate.
-Billy
And that's if you fill the space - while some people can do that overnight (:-), it'll take a while before their average user receives enough email to get close to that much, and the cost of disk capacity is still on a deep dive, so by the time the average user fills their 1GB, it'll cost $1 or $0.50 instead of $2.
Bill Stewart
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What the German said was clearly NOT anti-semetic.
And what McAddress said was clearly not funny.
Naturally McAddress was modded +5 Funny. Moderation here is completely worthless.
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Yes you can, but then you're hurting Slashdot financially when you do that. Why would you want to hurt Slashdot? You're naughty.