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Gmail Users Get A Storage Boost [updated]
Faies writes "As reported by ZDNet: Not to be outdone by Lycos, Google just upped its 1,000 megabyte accounts to 1,000,000 MB. I just recently checked my inbox, and the number at the bottom confirms this. "You are currently using 12 MB (0%) of your 1000000 MB." That's more than my hard drive...and plus, Google clearly wants to hold the title of being best, so who knows what will happen if someone else tries to compete with a terabyte." Now how much would you pay? Update: 05/19 13:34 GMT by T : Several comments to this thread indicate that the listed mailbox size limit has returned to the previous 1GB level, so this apparent change may be nothing more than the result of a misplaced decimal point.
Taken from gmail help:
What's the maximum message size limit?
Answer return to Help Center
You can send and receive messages up to 10 megabytes (MB) total. Any message that exceeds this limit will not be delivered to your inbox and will be returned to the sender. If you attempt to send an email that exceeds this limit, you will get an error message and your email will not be sent.
but I'm really uncomfortable with some of the social implications of GMail's services (along with some of the other services)
1) It seems like this promotes a tendency to centrally store all e-mail forever. No potential for any abuse by anyone there, right?
2) 10MB attachments. Uggh! Here I've spent years training my users to only send smaller files via e-mail. Maybe I'm out of touch with the times but I hate to think of the effect on bandwidth as people get accustomed to sending 10MB files through e-mail. To everyone on their address list. How long before GMail allows 25MB attachments in response to Lycos offering 15MB attachments?
You are newer than he is! God dammit that is so stupid.