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Rediff Joins The 1GB Webmail Club
BGT writes "Gmail has for sure caused a furor by offering announcing 1 GB of space for free. But they are still in the beta stage and you cannot sign up for an account yet. Now India-based Rediff claims to be the first to actually start offering 1GB of space for free, with their Rediffmail service." (Spymac mail users might disagree with the "first free gig" claim.) Signing up for a rediffmail account was straightforward; the site has an intelligent add-a-contact interface when you send email to a new address, but lacks the searchability and multiple-label capability of gmail.
I use to use this server a while back like a couple of years because a friend reccemended it.
It sucks, and is down a lot for "maintainence" (yeah fat guy tripped over the cat5 and pulled it out again I know!) etc...
My advice: wait until gmail's public, but don't register all the good names before I do!
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So what if email accounts are getting bigger, jeez, like giving users more space was something that could never possibly be envisaged before google came up with GMail. Its a natural progression folks and absolutely nothing to get excited about.
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I can say one thing cool about google mail, the heavy, working use of JavaScript is pretty cool. It works in Safari, Mozilla, and IE the same. Must have been hell to code :)
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That any of these new 1gb webmail companies will be around in 3 years? Google has proven staying power, and thats where my moneys at. (quite literally, heh. I actually shelled out 25 bucks for 2 gmail accounts.)
I would estimate at this point Google's given out about half a million invites.
Somehow I don't think smaller free mom and pop sites are going to beable to compete.
Overall, I fail to see how GMail will ever be a profitable enterprise for Google.
I just don't see how the ad revenue would ever surpass the bandwidth costs they incur.
agreed. Webmail, will never be as good as a pop account for me (which comes from my isp). I leave it open, know instantly when a new email comes. I do not know what the stink about a 1gig spam mail account is.
I dropped my hotmail account the instant it was bought out by MSN. Sad day, that was *sniff*
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I prefer that my ISP has a webmail front to my POP accounts. I can it anywhere, anytime, and still download it and keep it locally when I get home. I don't really worry about storage, but I don't trust webmail providers to backup the important messages I need to keep.
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Well, for people like me, who work between different locations (home, student house, university), that kind of access if pretty important. I mean sure, there's IMAP, but it's not exactly perfect. And of course we can't all have remote logins...
Just like Gmail, Rediff forces people to copy everything and do top-posting when replying to mails.
This is really anoying.
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Yes, I love df -h being my 'mail quota'. Also, searching is nice and fast. And the ability to create a number of accounts and implement very effective spam filtering/prevention is nice too.... Total control of how I access my mail and send new mail is good too, Authenticated smtps relay, imaps access, and webmail only for when I'm desparate means a much smoother experience.
I have honestly been surprised why geeks have been so excited over gmail when they often have the resources to give themselves whatever they want. True, it is more work and worry, but the benefits are incredible and the work and worry not significant for people who do or have had to do this sort of thing for a living (and for those who haven't, what better way to develop a more sophisticated skillset).
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